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THE 
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS 



The 
Dictionary of Quotations 



Being a Volume of Extracts Old 
and New from Writers of all Ages 



Selected and Arranged 
by 

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Copyright, 1908 

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Published August, 1908 




THE INTENT OF THE BOOK 



This little book is intended as a handy reference 
volume either in the home library or on the study 
table. It should prove particularly useful to school 
children and older students, to teachers, lawyers and 
clergymen, and to . the busy man or woman who 
occasionally may wish to use an appropriate quotation 
or may desire to locate one that he or she has heard. 

All the quotations are keyed and indexed so 
that any particular one or one on any particular 
subject is easily found. Cross references make the 
book especially valuable. 



NOTE 

It is impossible to give here the sources of all the translated work 
not acknowledged in the text. In some cases — such as that o] Goethe* s 
Spruche in Prosa, called " Re/lections and Maxims " after Mr, 
Rbnnfeldt — the origin has been hinted in the English title of the 
work. Schopenhauer is of course Mr. Bailey Saunders 's, Sadi 
is from the standard version by James Ross , and Omar Khayyam 
that of Edward Eitzgerald. 



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Abhor— ah9 

" O, how my heart abhors to hear him named." 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. 
Abilities— 

" Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want 
of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind 
can make up for the want of natural abilities." 

Schopenhauer. 
Abilities— 

" Your abilities are too infant like to do much alone." 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus. 
Absence— 

" Absence ! is not the soul torn by it 108 

From more than light, or life, or breath ? 597 

'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet — 
The pain without the peace of death ! " 

Campbell, Absence. 
Abuse— 

" If the man of sense is coarsely treated by the vulgar, 410 
let it not excite our wrath and indignation ; if a piece of 415 
worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not 452 
increased, nor that of the gold diminished." 861 

Sadi, Gulistan. 1483 
Accident— 

" What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a 969 
heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath." 

Schiller, Fiesco* 
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7 Act— ai 5§ 

"The player acts the world, the world the player." 
Steele, Commendatory Verses, 

8 Action and Conscience — 

" The man who acts is always devoid of conscience. 
No one has any conscience except the man who pauses to 
reflect." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

g Actor, An— 

" On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting" ; 1327 

'Twas only that, when he was off, he was acting." 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 
10 Actor, Hereafter of the— 

" In Green Rooms, impervious to mortal eye, the muse 
beholds thee wielding posthumous empire." 

Lamb, Last Essays of Elia. 
xi Adieu— 

" Scenes of woe and scenes of pleasure, Fare- 

Scenes that former thoughts renew, weU 

Scenes of woe and scenes of pleasure, 
Now a sad and last adieu ! " 

Burns,, Farewell to Ayrshire, 

12 Admiration— 

" It is a divine pleasure to admire ! Admiration seems 
in some measure to appropriate to ourselves the qualities 
it honours in others." — Lord Lytton. 

13 Adversity— 

" Sweet are the uses of adversity, Grief, 

Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, M' rr ° W ' 

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head." etc!^' 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, 

14 Adversity— 

" For prosperity doth best discover vice ; but adversity 1399 
doth best discover virtue." — BACON, Essays, 680 

15 Adversity— 

" A wretched soul, bruised with adversity." 

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors. 
x6 Adversity— 

" Adversity is the first path to truth." 

Byron, Donfuan, 
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17 Adversity— also 

" If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is 
small. " — Book of Proverbs, 

x8 Adversity— 

"A man am I, crossed with adversity." 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, 

19 Affectation in Dress— 

" Affectation in dress always misses the end it aims at, 
and raises contempt instead of admiration." 

Steele, Essays, 

20 Affections, Young— 

" Alas ! our young affections run to waste, 1909 

Or water but the desert." igi3 

Byron, Childe Harold. 

21 Affliction— 

"We feel ourselves the most exempt from affliction 
when we relieve it, although we are then the most 
conscious that it may befall us." 

Landor, Imaginary Conversations, 

22 Affront— 

"A moral, sensible, and well-bred man 5 

Will not affront me, and no other can." 

Cowper, Conversation, 

23 Age— 

"Since the joyous circle of youthful companions is 1 107 
broken again and again, until at length all perish ; since 1248 
the graves of your friends serve but as steps to lead you 1669 
down to your own tomb ; and since your dreary and 
solitary old age resembles nothing so much as the evening 
hour upon a deserted battle-field, — O ye poor mortals, 
how can your hearts endure ? " 

RlCHTER, Death of An Angel. 

24 Age— 

" What is the worst of woes that wait on age ? 
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow ? 
To view each loved one blotted from life's page, 
And be alone on earth as I am now." 

Byron, Childe Harold. 

25 Age— 

" Youth is a blunder ; manhood a struggle ; old age a 
regret." — Disraeli, Coningsby, 

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26 Age— alst 

" We hope to grow old and we dread old age ; that is 
to say, we love to live and we flee from death." 

La Bruyere, Characters. 

27 Age— 

"When all the world is old, lad, 
And all the trees are brown ; 
And all the sport is stale, lad, 

And all the wheels run down : 
Creep home, and take your place there, 

The spent and maim'd among : 
God grant you find one face there 
You loved when all was young/ 

Kingsley, The 'Old, Old Song.* 

28 Age— 

" What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys but 
that our hopes cease." — Richter, Titan. 

B 9 Age— 

" But age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, 
turning bad dispositions into worser habits, and (like 
diseases) brings on incurable vices ; for every day as we 
grow weaker in age, we grow stronger in sin, and the 
number of our days doth but make our sins innumerable." 

Browne, Religio Meanci. 

30 Age— 

" Age, that lessens the enjoyments of life, increases 
our desire of living." — Goldsmith, Essays. 

31 Age— 

" The evening of life brings with it its lamp." 

Joubert, Thoughts. 

32 Age— 

" Observation is an old man's memory." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

33 Age— 570 

" It seemeth custom alloweth old age more liberty to 5 
babble, and indiscretion to talk of itself." 5 3 

Montaigne, Essays. It>55 

34 Age- 12 « 

" Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
Her infinite variety." 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. 

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35 Age, Respect to— 

"The reason why respect is paid to age, is that old 
people have necessarily shown in the course of their lives 
whether or not they have been able to maintain their 
honour unblemished ; while that of young" people has not 
yet been put to the proof, though they are credited with 
the possession of it." — Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life, 

36 Age, The Present — 

" The choice and master spirits of this age." 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar. 

37 Agent— 

" Thus is the poor agent despised." 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida. 

38 Ages, The— 

" Let idle declaimers mourn over the degeneracy of the 
age ; but in my opinion every age is the same." 

Goldsmith, Essays. 

39 Agony— 

" In this artificial life of ours, it is not often we see a 
human face with all a heart's agony in it, uncontrolled by 
self-consciousness ; when we do see it, it startles us as if 
we had suddenly walked into the real world of which this 
every-day one is but a puppet-show copy."; 

George Eliot, Janet's Repentance. 

40 Agreement — 

" Birds are taken with pipes that imitate their own 
voices, and men with those sayings that are most agree- 
able to their own opinions." — Butler, Unpublished Remains. 

41 Aims— 

" Aims of a higher order, even though they be not 
fulfilled, are in themselves more valuable than lower ones 
entirely fulfilled." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

42 Ale— 

" A quart of ale is a dish for a king." 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale. 

43 Ale— 

" For God's sake, a pot of small ale." 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew. 

44 Ale=washed Wits— 

"Among foaming bottles and ale-washed wits." 

Shakespeare, Henry V. 
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45 Alone— a i so 

" Alone ! that worn-out word, „ „ 

So idly spoken, and so coldly heard ; tU( k 

Yet all that poets sing - , and grief hath known, 595 

Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word — Alone !" IO o8 

Lytton, The New Timon. 

46 Ambition — 

"Ambition is like a choler, which is a humour that 7*° 
makes men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and > stirring", 
if it be not stopped; but if it be stopped, and cannot have 
its way, it becometh fiery, and thereby malign and 
venomous." — Bacon, Essays, 

47 Ambition—- 

" The same ambition can destroy or save, Fame 

And makes a patriot as it makes a slave." 672 

Pope, Essay on Man, 

48 Ambition— 

" I charge thee, fling away ambition : 
By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, then, 
The Image of his Maker, hope to win by *t ? " 

Shakespeare, Henry VIII. 

49 Ambition — 

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked." 

Landor, Imaginary Conversations. 

50 Ambition— 

" Ambition is pitiless : every merit that it cannot use is 1009 
contemptible in its eyes." — Joubert, Thoughts, 

51 Ambition— 

" Not prompted, as in our degenerate days, 
By low ambition and the thirst of praise." 

Cowper, Table Talk. 

52 Ambition— 

" Choked with ambition of the meaner sort." 

Shakespeare, i Henry VI. 

53 Ambitious, The— 

"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the 
shadow of a dream." — SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet. 

54 Ambitious Thoughts— 

" Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry VL 
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55 Ancestry — 

"The pride of ancestry may be had on cheaper terms 
than to be obliged to an importunate race of ancestors ; 
and the coatless antiquary in his unemblazoned cell, 
revolving the long line of a Mowbray's or De Clifford's 
peerage, at those sounding names may warm himself into 
as gay a vanity as those who do inherit them." 

Lamb, Lust Essays of Elia. 

56 Angel, An — 

" Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel." 

Shakespeare, Henry VIIL 

57 Angels— 

" Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell." 

Shakespeare, Macbeth. 

j8 Anger— 

" What sudden anger's this ? " 

Shakespeare, Henry VIIL 

S9 Angler, An— 

" I am, Sir, a brother of the angle." 

Walton, Compleat Angler* 

*> Annoyance— 

" Remove from her the means of all annoyance." 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, 

61 Antipathy— 

" In brief I am averse from nothing : my conscience 
would give me the lie if I should say I absolutely detest or 
hate any essence but the Devil ; or so at least abhor any 
thing, but that we might come to composition." 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

62 Apologies— 

" Apologies only account for that which they do not 
alter." — Disraeli, Speeches. 

63 Apology— 

"Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times 
out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his 
shortcoming is from his apology. It is mighty presump- 
tuous on your part to suppose your small failures of so much 
consequence that you must make a talk about it." 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast Table. 
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6 4 Apoplexy— a / sa 

"This apoplexy sure will be his end." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. 

65 Apothecary— 

u Ido remember an apothecary, 
And hereabouts he dwells." 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. 

66 Apothecary — 

" O true apothecary ! 
Thy drugs are quick." 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 

67 Apparel — 

" For the apparel oft proclaims the man." 

Shakespeare, HamUt. 

68 Apparition— 

" I think it is the weakness of mine eyes 
That shapes this monstrous apparition." 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 

69 Appearances — 

" Things pass for what they seem, not for what they are. 205 
Few see inside ; many take to the outside. It is not 1605 
enough to be right, if right seem false and ill." 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 

70 Appearances, Judging by— 

" Beware so long as you live, of judging people by 
appearances." — La Fontaine, Fables. 

71 Appetite— 

" Who riseth from a feast 
With that keen appetite that he sits down ? " 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

72 Applause, Popular— 

" Oh, popular applause ! What heart of man 1379 

Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? " 

Cowper, The Task. 

73 Applause, Popular — 

" The brave man seeks not popular applause." 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, 
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74 Appreciation— also 

" Be thou the first true merit to befriend : 953 

His praise is lost, who stays till all commend." 1432 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

75 Argument — 

" A learned man who has got into an argument with Dis- 
the ignorant can have no hope of supporting his own P ute 
dignity." — Sadi, Gulistan. I257 

76 Argument— 2g3 

11 Be calm in arguing : for fierceness makes I253 

Error a fault, and truth discourtesy." I235 

Herbert, The Temple. 

77 Argument— 

11 All argument will vanish before one touch of nature." 
Colman, The Poor Gentleman. 

78 Aristocracy, An— 

" What is an Aristocracy? A corporation of the Best, 866 
of the Bravest." — Carlyle, Chartism. 

79 Armour, The Best— 

" The best armour is to keep out of gunshot." — Bacon. 1490 

80 Art— 

u It is the glory and the good of Art, 
That Art remains the one way possible 
Of speaking truth, — to mouths like mine, at least." 
Browning, The Ring and the Book. 

8x Art and Nature— 

" Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only 1216 
given us being, the former has made us men." 

Schiller, Fiesco. 

82 Art and the World— 

"There is no surer method of evading the world than 
by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to 
it than by Art." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

83 Art and Character— 

"To be instructed in the arts, softens the character, and 
makes men gentle." — Ovid, Epistles. 

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84 Artificiality— a / so 

" No man for any considerable period can wear one face 
to himself and another to the multitude, without finally 
getting- bewildered as to which may be the true." 

Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. 

85 Aspersion — 

" Aspersion is the babbler's trade : Cal- 

To listen is to give him aid." umn y 

Cowper, Friendship. 

86 Aspersions — 

" Who by aspersions throw a stone 
At the head of others, hit their own." 

Herbert, Charms and Knvts. 

87 Assiduities— 

" The assiduities of these pfood people tease me beyond 
bearing." — Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. 

88 Atheist, An— 

" By night an atheist half believes a God." 

Young, Night Thoughts. 

89 Attraction— 

" There are men who love their like and seek it ; and 
others, again, who love their opposite and are attracted 
by it." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

90 Audacity— 

" Audacity is necessary in the commerce of men." 

Johnson. 

91 Audacity — 

" Arm me, audacity, fiom head to foot." 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline. 

92 Audit — 

" And how his audit stands, who knows, save Heaven?" 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

93 Authority- . u ±\ . ^* 

11 Men cannot exist without authority, and yet it carries Truth 
with it as much of error as of truth. It perpetuates one 296 
by one things which should pass away one by one ; it 899 
rejects and allows to pass away things which should be 963 
preserved ; and it forms the principal cause why man- 1262 
kind remains at the same stage instead of advancing." 1370 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims 1678 
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94 Authority— aiso 

"Authority — the fact, namely, that something" has already 
happened, or been said or decided — is of great value j 
but it is only the pedant who demands authority for 
everything-." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

95 Authority— 

" Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led 
by the nose with gold." — Shakespeare, Winter s Tale, 

96 Authority— 

" Man, proud man ! Maa 

Drest in a little brief authority." Life 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. 

97 Author's Cares, An — 

" None but an author knows an author's cares." 

Cowper, Progress of Err$r* 

98 Authors— 

" Authors in general are stark mad on the subject of 
their own works."— Le Sacj, Gil Bias. 

99 Authors, Three Classes of— 

" Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and 
fixed stars : the first have a momentary effect ; the 
second have a much longer duration ; but the third are 
unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all 
time."— Schopenhauer, Art of Literature, 

100 Avarice— 

" So for a good old-gentlemanly vice «4o 

I think I must take up with avarice." 

Byron, Don Juan. 

101 Babble — 

" Babble, babble, our old England may go down in babble 
at last." — Tennyson, Sixty Years After. 

102 Babble— 

" Babble shall not henceforth trouble me." 

Shakespeare, Two Gentle?nen of Verona. 

103 Bachelor, A — 

" When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I 
should live to be married." 

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 
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104 Bachelor, A—- a /so 

' ' Am I a married man or a bachelor ? Then to answer 
every man directly and briefly, wisely and truly : — wisely 
I say, I am a bachelor." — Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar. 

105 Bachelor, The— 

" But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty ; Mar . 
especially in certain self-speaking 1 and humorous minds, riage 
which are so sensible of every restraint as they will go 
near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and 
shackles. Unmarried men are best friends ; best masters ; 
best servants ; but not always best subjects, for they are 
light to run away." — Bacon, Essays. 

xo6 Backbiters — 

"Were there no hearers, there would be no back- 
biters." — Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 

107 Backbiting— 

" If everybody knew what one says of the other, there 
would not be four friends left in the world." 

Pascal, Thoughts. 

108 Banishment — 

" banished from her 4 

Is self from self ! A dreary banishment." 507 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

X09 Bashful Men— 

" I pity bashful men, who feel the pain 
Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, 
And bear the marks upon a blushing face, 
Of needless shame, and self-imposed disgrace. " 
Cowper, Conversation. 
no Battle— 

" Battle's magnificently stern array." War 

Byron, Childe Harold. 
in Bear, To— 

" To bear is to conquer our fate." 599 

Campbell, On Visiting a Scene in Argyleshire. 1602 

112 Beauty— 

"Beauty stands 
In the admiration only of weak minds 
Led captive." — Milton, Paradise Regained. 
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113 Beauty— also 

" Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Truth 

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." 

Keats, On a Grecian Urn. 

114 Beauty — 

" But through the morning- gate of beauty goes 
Thy pathway to the land of knowledge." 

Schiller, The Artist. 

115 Beauty — 

4 'The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin 
deep saying." — Herbert Spencer, Essays. 

116 Beauty — 

" A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." 

Keats, Endymion. 

117 Beauty— 

" Beauty without merit and virtue is a bait for fools." 1010 

Addison, Essays. 
xi8 Beauty— 

" Beauty is a witch." 
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 
119 Beauty— 

" Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, 
The power of beauty I remember yet." 

Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia. 
ico Beauty— 

" Beauty is a short-lived flower, 
Destined but to bloom and fade." 

Burns, Fife, and all the Lands about It. 

121 Beauty — 

" All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form ! 
Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women, and 
children — in our gardens and in our homes. But let us 
love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of 
proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy." 

George Eliot, Adam Bede. 

122 Beauty— 

" Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold." 

Shakespeare, As You Like It. 

123 Beauty — 

" Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, 
And beauty draws us with a single hair. ' 

Pope, Rape of the Loch 
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See 
X24 Beauty— also 

" O Beauty, till now I never knew thee." 

Shakespeare, Henry VIII. 

125 Beauty and Virtue— 

" For beauty may a while retain 
The conquer'd flatt'ring" mart, 
But virtue only is the chain 
Holds, never to depart." 

Burns, She Rose and Let Me In, 

126 Bells, Evening— 

" Those evening- bells ! those evening bells ! 
How many a tale their music tells ! " 

Moore, Those Evening Bells. 

127 Bigot— 

" Time brings no mercy to the bigot's hate." 

Schiller, Rousseau, 

128 Bigot— 

"Listening supinely to a bigot's creed." 

Shelley, Queen Mad. 

129 Biography— 

" A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. 

Carlyle, Miscellanies. 

130 Birthday— 

" My birthday ! — what a different sound 
That word had in my youthful ears ; 
And how each time the day comes round, 
Less and less white its mark appears." 

Moore, My Birthday. 

131 Birthday — 

" Is that a birthday ? 'tis, alas ! too clear ; 
'Tis but the funeral of the former year." 

Pope, To Mrs. M. B. 

132 Blameless Life, The— 

" There's no blameless life 
Save for the passionless, no sanctities 
But have the self-same roof and props with crime, 
Or have their roots close interlaced with vileness." 
George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy. 

133 Blushing— 

"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses 1533 
and vanity." — La Bruyere, Characters. 
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i34 Blushing— 

" Where not one careless thought intrudes 
Less modest than the speech of prudes ; 
Where never blush was called in aid, 
That spurious virtue in a maid, 
A virtue but at second-hand ; 
They blush because they understand." 

Swift, Cadmus and Vanessa, 

135 Book— 

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master- 
spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life 
beyond life." — Milton, Areopagitica. 

136 Book— 

" No magic Rune is stranger than a book. All that 
mankind has done, thought, gained or been ; it is lying 
as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They 
are the chosen possession of men. — Do not Books still 
accomplish miracles^ as Runes were fabled to do ? They 
persuade men. Not the wretchedest circulating-library 
novel, which foolish girls thumb and con in remote villages, 
but will help to regulate the actual practical weddings and 
households of those foolish girls." 

Carlvle, Heroes and Hero- Worship. 

137 Book— 

" No book is worth anything which is not worth much" 

R.USKIN. 

138 Book— 

"O that my words were now printed! O that they 
were printed in a book." — Book of Job. 

X39 Book— 

" 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print ; 
A book's a book, although there's nothing in't." 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 

140 Book, Killing a Good— 

" As good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who 66x 
kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but 
he who destroys a good book kills reason itself." 

M I LTON, Areopagitica, 

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141 Books — also 

" Books are men of higher stature, 
And the only men that speak aloud for future times to 
hear." 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Geraldine's Courtship. 

142 Books— 

" Where are your books ? — that light bequeathed 
To Beings else forlorn and blind ! 
Up ! up ! and drink the spirit breathed 
From dead men to their kind." 

Wordsworth, Expostulation and Reply. 

143 Books— 

" This books can do; nor this alone, they give 
New views to life, and teach us how to live ; 
They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise, 
Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise." 

Crabbe, The Library. 

144 Books— 

"The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea 
of wisdom ; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow." 

Holmes, Poet at the Breakfast Table. 

145 Books— 

" My days among the Dead are past ; 
Around me I behold, 
Where'er these casual eyes are cast, 

The mighty minds of old ; 
My never-failing friends are they, 
With whom I converse day by day." 

Southey, Stanzas Written in his Library. 

146 Books— 

" I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love 
to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not 
walking, I am reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books 
think for me." — Lamb, Last Essays of Elia. 

147 Books — 

" If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach 
other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to 
that." — Carlyle, Heroes and Hero- Worship. 

148 Books— 

" Perhaps the greatest charm of books is, that we see 1661 
in them that other men have suffered what we have." 

Helps, Friends in Council. 
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149 Books — also 

" If a man wants to read good books, he must make a 1004 
point of avoiding- bad ones ; for life is short, and time and 
energy limited." — Schopenhauer, Art of Literature, 

150 Books — 

" There is no Past, so long as books shall live." 

Lytton, 1 he Souls of Books. 

151 Books— 

" I do not search and toss over books but for an honester 
recreation to please, and pastime to delight myself; or if 
I study, I only endeavour to find out the knowledge of 
myself, and which may instruct me how to die well and how 
to live well." — Montaigne, Essays. 

152 Books— 

44 All men are afraid of books, who have not handled 
them from infancy." 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. 

153 Books— 

" In the majority of agreeable books there is nothing 
but a prattle that does not tire you." 

Joubert, Thoughts. 

154 Books— 

" Books are a part of man's prerogative, 
In formal ink they thoughts and voices hold, 
That we to them our solitude may give, 
And make time-present travel that of old." 

Overbury, A Wife. 

155 Books— 

" When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it 
seems to me to be alive and talking to me." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

156 Books— 

" It would be a good thing to buy books if one could 
also buy the time in which to read them; but generally the 
purchase of a book is mistaken for the acquisition of its 
contents." — Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

157 Books 

44 Learning hath gained most by those books by which 
the printers have lost." — Fuller, Of Books. 

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158 Books — also 

" Of making many books there is no end ; and much 
study is a weariness of the flesh." — Book of Ecclesiastes. 

159 Books— 

" Books ! 'tis a dull and endless strife : 
Come, hear the woodland linnet. 
How sweet his music ! on my life, 
There's more of wisdom in it." 

Wordsworth, The Tables Turned. 

160 Books— 

" Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest 
the author." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

x6i Books — 

" He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a 
book." — Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost. 

162 Books— 

" Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself." 474>57 x > 

Milton, Paradise Regained. 945,1419 

163 Bore, The— 180,646, 

"The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything." 876,1580, 
Voltaire, Preliminary Discourse. 1646 

164 Borrower, The— 

" What a careless, even deportment hath your borrower! 
what rosy gills ! What a beautiful reliance on Providence 
doth he manifest, — taking no more thought than lilies ! 
W 7 hat contempt for money, — accounting it (yours and mine 
especially) no better than dross ! What a liberal com- 
pounding of those pedantic distinctions oimeum and tuum." 

Lamb, Essays of Elia. 

165 Borrower — 

"The borrower is servant to the lender." 

Book of Proverbs. 

166 Borrower and Lender— 

" Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

167 Boy— 

Ah, happy years ! once more, who would not be a boy ? " Youth 

Byron, Childe Harold, 
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168 Boyhood— a / sa 

" Turning- to mirth all things of earth, 
As only boyhood can." 

Hood, Dream of Eugene Aram, 

169 Boys — 

" Boys, with women's voices, strive to speak big"." 

Shakespeare, Richard II. 

170 Brave, The— 

" How sleep the brave, who sink to rest 
By all their country's wishes blessed ! " 

Collins, Ode. 

171 Brave, The — 

" Toll for the brave ! 
The brave that are no more." 

Cowper, Loss of the Royal George. 

172 Brave, The— 

" Brave hearts to Britain's pride 310 

Once so faithful and so true." 455 

Campeell, Battle of the Baltic. 

173 Brave, The— 

" Soft sigh the winds of heaven o'er their grave ! 
While the billow mournful rolls, 
And the mermaid's song condoles, 
Singing glory to the souls 
Of the brave." 

Campbell, Battle ->fthe Baltic. 

174 Brave Man in Distress, A— 

" A brave man in distress is the most touching object in 
the world.'— Le Sage, Gil Bias. 

175 Bravery— 

" People glorify ali sorts of bravery except the bravery Cour- 
tney might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours." a S c 
George Eliot, Middlemanh. 

176 Bread and Cheese— 

" I love not the humour of bread and cheese." 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor. 

177 Breakfast— 

"And then to breakfast with what appetite you have." 

Shakespeare, Henry VIIL 

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178 Breeding, Good— a / s& 

" Few to good breeding make a just pretence ; 
Good breeding is the blossom of good sense." 

Young, Love of Fame. 

179 Breeding, Good— 

" Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best 1079 
bred in the company." — Swift, Treatise on Good Manners. 

180 Brevity— 

" Brevity is the soul of wit." — Shakespeare, Hamlet. 163 

181 Brothers in Distress — 

"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress." 

Burns, A Winters Night 

182 Brutish — 

"Surely I am more brutish than any man." 

Book of Proverbs. 

183 Burden of Others, The— 

" None knows the weight of another's burden." 

Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 

184 Calamity— 

" Thou art wedded to calamity." 

Shakespeare, Romeo andfuliet. 

185 Caledonia— 

" O Caledonia ! stern and wild, 
Meet nurse for a poetic child ! " 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel. 

186 Calumny — 

"Calumny will sear virtue itself." 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale. 

187 Calumny— 

"Of all persecutions, that of calumny is the most in- 85 
tolerable. Any other kind of persecution can affect our 41® 
outward circumstances only, our properties, our lives ; 1497 
but this may affect our characters for ever." — Hazlitt. 

188 Calumny — 

" Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, 
Thou shalt not escape calumny." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

189 Care— 

" I am sure care's an enemy to life." 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night* 
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«go Cares— a lso 

" And the night shall be filled with music, Grief, 

And the cares that infest the day Sorrow 

Shall fold up their tents like the Arabs, 
And as silently steal away." 

Longfellow, The Day is Done. 

tgi Carping— 

** Such carping" is not commendable." 

Shakespeare, Richard III. 

192 Catholicism— 

" Catholicism, for example, is simply average humanity 
in a surplice — that is the secret of its hold upon the 
world. It practically admits that Christian ideals are 
hopelessly out of reach, though it theoretically preaches 
them, more rigidly, perhaps, than any other creed." 

Le Gallienne, Religion of a Literary Man. 

cg3 Celebrity — 

44 What is celebrity? The advantage of being known Fame, 
to people who don't know you."- ChaMFORT, Maxims. Reputa- 
tion 

«94 Censorious, The— 

" But many have such a scent that amid a thousand Faults 
excellences they fix upon a single defect, and single it 7 2 3 
out for blame as if they were scavengers of men's minds 875 
and hearts." 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom* 

195 Censure— 

" Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being 
eminent." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

196 Censure— 

"Criticize, reform or preach, 332 

Censuring what we cannot reach." 

Lady Winchelsea, To the Nightingale. 

197 Censure— 

" There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself 
of the censure of the world : to despise it, to return the 
like, or to endeavour to live so as to avoid it ; the first 
of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impos- 
sible, the universal practice is for the second." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 
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198 Ceremony— a / so 

" Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous 
in the grave, solemnizing- nativities and deaths with equal 
lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy 
of his nature.'' — Browne, Urn Burial 

199 Ceremony— 

" O ceremony, show me but thy worth ! " 

Shakespeare, Henry V. 

200 Chance — 

" Man cannot, thoug-h he would, live chance's fool." 
Matthew Arnold, Human Life. 

201 Character— 8 3 3 

" Character is not cut in marble, it is not something solid 920 
and unalterable. It is something" living- and changing-." 1711 

George Eliot. 1145 

202 Character— 

" None but yourself knows rightly whether you be de- Insight 
miss and cruel, or loyal and devout. Others see you not, 1179 
but g-uess you by uncertain conjectures. They see not 
so much your nature as your art."— MONTAIGNE, Essays. 

B03 Character— 

" If you have to live among men, you must allow every 286 
one the rig-ht to exist in accordance with the character 1672 
he has, whatever it turns out to be ; and all you should 
strive to do is to make use of this character in such a 
way as its kind and nature permit, rather than to hope 
for any alteration in it, or to condemn it offhand for 
what it is." — Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

204 Character— 

" Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a 
great deal worse." — Cervantes, Don Quixote. 

205 Character— 

"We pass for what we are. Character teaches above 6g 
our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their 1605 
virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that 
virtue or vice emit a breath every moment." 

Emerson, Self- Reliance. 

206 Character— 

" There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all 340 
his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve 6S5 
hanging ten times in his life." — Montaigne, Essays. 1179 

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207 Character— also 

" Each of us has something in his nature which, if it were 
openly expressed, would be sure to excite displeasure." 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

208 Character— 

" A man never shows his own character so plainly as by 443 
his manner of portraying another's. — RlCHTER, Titan. 

209 Character — 

" Our depths who fathoms, or our shallows finds, Insight 

Quick whirls, and shifting eddies, of our minds ? 
On human actions reason tho' you can, 
It may be reason, but it is not man : 
His principle of action once explore, 
That instant 'tis his principle no more. 
Like following life through creatures you dissect, 
You lose it in the moment you detect." 

Pope, Moral Essays. 

210 Character — 

"In stillness Talent forms itself, but Character is the 1632 
great current of the world." — Goethe, Tasso. 

211 Character— 

" Although men are accused for not knowing their own 1304 
weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own 1788 
strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes 
there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of." 
Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

212 Character — 

"Tell me with whom thou dost associate, and I will tell 
thee who thou art. If I know wherewith thou busiest 
thyself, I know what can be made of thee." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

213 Character — 

" We are all framed of flaps and patches, and of so shape- *3* 
less and diverse a contexture that every piece and every 300 
moment playeth its part. And there is as much differ- 420 
ence found between us and ourselves as there is between 84* 
ourselves and others." — Montaigne, Essays. *°68 



214 Character — 

"Character calls forth character." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 
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" A man so various that he seemed to be 
Not one but all mankind's epitome : 
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong". 
Was everything- by starts, and nothing long ; 
But in the course of one revolving moon, 
Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon." 

Dryden, Absalom and AchitopheU 

216 Charity— 

1 * Alas ! for the rarity 
Of Christian charity 

Under the sun !" — Hood, Bridge of Sighs. 

217 Charity — 

" For charity shall cover the multitude of sins." 

First Epistle of Peter. 

218 Charity — 

" Our charity begins at home, 
And mostly ends where it begins." 

Horace Smith, Horace in London. 

219 Charity— 

* ' There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion Sym- 
towards love of others ; which, if it be not spent upon P ath y 
some one, or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards 
many ; and maketh men become humane and charit- 
able." — Bacon, Essays. 

220 Charity — 

"I as little fear that God will damn a man that has 
charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who 
has not." — Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

381 Charity — 

" Teach me to love, and to forgive, Forgive- 

Exact my own defects to scan, " ess » 

What others are to feel, and know myself a Man." ment" 

Gray, Hymn to Adversity. etc. 

222 Charity — 

" I hold not so narrow a conceit of this virtue, as to 
conceive that to give alms is only to be charitable, or 
think a piece of liberality can comprehend the total of 
charity." — Browne, Religio Medici. 
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223 Charity— also 

11 Be to her virtues very kind ; M 

Be to her faults a little blind." Sin, ^ 

Prior, An English Padlock. Evil 

224 Charity— 

"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to 
fall ; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall ; 
but in charity there is no excess ; neither can angel, or 
man, come in danger by it." — Bacon, Essays. 

225 Chanty — 

" Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, 904 

And even his failings leaned to virtue's side ; 
But in his duty prompt at every call, 
He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all." 
Goldsmith, Deserted Village. 

226 Charity— 

" O, rich man's son ! there is a toil, 1357 

That with all others level stands ; 
Large charity doth never soil, 
But only whiten, soft, white hands, — 
This is the best crop from thy lands ; 
A heritage, it seems to me, 
Worth being rich to hold in fee." 

Lowell, The Heritage. 

227 Charity— 

" Here to the houseless child of want 
My door is open still : 
And though my portion is but scant, 
I give it with good- will." 

Goldsmith, The Hermit. 

228 Charity, Politic— 

" It is as erroneous a conceit to redress other men's 549 
misfortunes upon the com -non considerations of merciful 
natures, that it may be one day our own case ; for this 
is a sinister and politic kind of charity, whereby we 
seem to bespeak the pities of men in the like occasions." 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

229 Chastity— 

" So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, 
That, when a soul is found sincerely so, 
A thousand liveried angels lackey her, 
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt' 

Milton, Comus. 

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230 Chastity— aiso 

" Chaste women are often proud and froward, as pre- 
suming- upon the merit of their chastity." — Bacon, Essays, 

231 Child— 

11 The child is father of the man." ixn 

Wordsworth, Poems referring to Childhood. 

232 Child — 

"O there's nothing- on earth half so holy, 
As the innocent heart of a child." 

The Children ( Verses found in the desk $f 
Charles Dickens after his death). 

233 Child, A Thankless— 

" Sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless child." 

Shakespeare, King Lear. 

234 Childhood — 

" The childhood shows the man 
As morning shows the day." 

Milton, Paradise Regained. 

235 Childhood — 

"Oh, is it all forgot? 
All school-day friendship, childhood innocence." 

Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. 

236 Childhood, The Sorrows of— 

"These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is 
all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings 
to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from 
summer to summer seems measureless." 

George Eliot, Adam Bede. 

237 Children — 

11 Children have more need of models than of critics." 

Joubert, Thoughts. 

238 Children— 

"The pleasure a man receives from his children resem- 
bles that which, with more propriety than any other, we 
may attribute to the Divinity." 

Landor, Imaginary Conversations. 

239 Children— 

" Ah ! there are no children nowadays." 

Moliere, Le Malade Imaginaire. 
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240 Children— a i^ 

" Ah ! what would the world be to us, 
If the children were no more ? 
We should dread the desert behind us 
Worse than the dark before." 

Longfellow, Children. 

241 Children— 

" 'Tis not good that children should know any wicked- 
ness." — Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor. 

242 Chivalry— 

" But the age of chivalry is gone." 648 

Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution. 

243 Chivalry— 

" I have a truant been to chivalry." 

Shakespeare, i Henry IV. 

244 Chorus Girl, A— 

" One of those little tawdry things that flirt at the tail 
of choruses." — Lamb, Last Essays of Elia. 

245 Christian Names, Calling by— 

" So Christians should call one another." 

Lamb, Essays of Elia. 

246 Church— 

"Some to church repair, 
Not for the doctrine but the music there." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism 

247 Circumstance and Character— 

" If you take temptations into account, who is to say 54* 
that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable 606 
career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at 
least keeps them so." — Thackeray, Vanity Fair. 

148 Circumstances, Altered— 

" Altered circumstances should not make strange faces." 

Le Sage, Gil Bias. 

249 Clock, The— 

"The clock upbraids me with the waste of time." 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. 

250 Clothes— 

" Their clothes are after such a Pagan cut." 

Shakespeare, Henry VIII. 
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251 Coldness — ^ c<? 

11 Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? " 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

252 Colours— 

" Let our bloody colours wave." 

Shakespeare, 3 Henry VI. 

253 Comforter— 

" Let no comforter delight mine ears." 

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 

254 Comforters— 

" Miserable comforters are ye all."— Book of Job. 

255 Commerce— 

"Where wealth and freedom reigns, contentment fails ; Gold, 
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails." Wealth 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 

256 Commerce — 

"Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, 
The signet of its all-enslaving power 
Upon a shining ore, and called it gold ; 
Before whose image bow the vulgar great, 
The vainly rich, the miserable proud, 
The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, 
And with blind feelings reverence the power 
That grinds them to the dust of misery." 

Shelley, Queen Mab. 

257 Common People, The 

" The sort of common people I'm speaking of are not 1414 
found among the lower classes alone ; they crawl and 
swarm all around us — up to the very summits of society " 
(D»- Stockmann). — Ibsen, An Enemy of the People. 

258 Commonness— 

" Commonness is its own security." Medi- 

George Eliot, Armgart. o^y 

259 Commonplace, The — 

"It is useless for us to denounce the vulgar and Great- 
commonplace, for it will ever remain the same." ness 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 302 

260 Company — 

" In sooth, a goodly company." 

Bar ham, Jackdaw of Rheims. 
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261 Comparisons— also 

" Comparisons are odious." 

Herbert, Jacula Prttdentum. 

262 Compassionate— 

" It boots thee not to be compassionate." 

Shakespeare, Richard II. 

263 Complaint — 

" Light sufferings give us leisure to complain ; 7 20 

We groan, but cannot speak, in greater pain." 7 22 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite. 7 2 3 

264 Compliance — 

" He that complies against his will, 
Is of his own opinion still." 

Butler, Hudibras. 

265 Compliance — 

" One must lend himself unto those he is with, and 
sometimes affect ignorance. Set force and subtilty aside. 
In common employments it is enough to reserve order. 
Drag yourself even close to the ground, they will have it 
so." — Montaigne, Essays. 

266 Complicating— 

" Is not the world full enough of riddles already, 
without our making riddles also out of the simplest 
phenomena? " — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

267 Conceits— 

" Freaks and strange conceits, when they grow stale, 
are always rank nonsense." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 
258 Concentration— 

"The weakest living creature, by concentrating his L«t>^ur, 
powers on a single object, can accomplish something. v/ork 
The strongest, by dispersing his over many, may fail to 993 
accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, 1295 
bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasiy 
torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no 
trace behind." — Carlyle. 

269 Condemnation — 

" No man can justly censure or condemn another, Faults, 
because indeed no man truly knows another. This I J ud S- 
perceive in myself ; for I am in the dark to all the world, shis!' 
and my nearest friends behold me but in a cloud. Evil' 

Browne, Religio Medici, Mercy 
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270 Condemned Man, The— also 

" The wretch, condemn'd with life to part 
Still, still on hope relies : 
And ev'ry pang that rends the heart 
Bids expectation rise." 
Goldsmith, From the Oratorio of the Captivity, 

271 Confidence— 

" We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of 546 
our own conceit ; alas for us, if we get a few pinches that 710 
empty us of that windy self-subsistence. The very 795 
capacity for good would go out of us." 

George Eliot, Amos Barton. 
972 Confidences — 

" Confidences are sometimes blinding, even when they 
are sincere." — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss. 

273 Confidences— 

(< An old friend is not always the person whom it is Secrets 
easist to make a confidant of." 

George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

274 Conformity — 

" Some persons bend to the world in all things, from Public 
an innocent belief that what so many people think must 296, 8gg 
be right." — Helps, Friends in Council. 1058 

275 Conformity— 

" I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to i ty 
badges and names, to large societies and dead institu- 823, 963 
tions." — Emerson, Self- Reliance. 1203 

276 Conformity and Consistency— 

" I hope in these days we have heard the last of 
conformity and consistency." — Emerson, Self Reliance. 

277 Confusion — 

" Ruin upon ruin ; rout on rout, 
Confusion worse confounded." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

278 Conscience— 

" The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be 
derived from nature, proceed from custom." 

Montaigne, Essays* 
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279 Conscience — also 

" Conscience, good my lord, 8 

Is but the pulse of reason." 

Coleridge, Zapolya. 
a8o Conscience — 

M Conscience is harder than our enemies, 4 ia 

Knows more, accuses with more nicety, 
Nor needs to question Rumour if we fall 
Below the perfect model of our thought." 

George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy. 

281 Conscience — 

" Thus conscience does make cowards of us all." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

282 Conscience, A Scrupulous— 

" He that hath a scrupulous conscience, is like a horse 
that is not well wayed ; he starts at every bird that flies 
out of the hedge." — Selden, Table-Talk, 

283 Conscientious, The— 

" Your conscientious men are oftener conscientious in 
withholding than in bestowing." 

LANDOR, Imaginary Conversations. 

284 Consistency — 

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." 

Emerson, Self- Reliance. 

285 Consistency— 

" With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." 

Emerson, Self-Reliance. 
a86 Contempt— 

" No one who has to live amongst men should absolutely 203 
discard any person who has his due place in the order of 
nature, even though he is very wicked or contemptible or 
ridiculous." — Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

287 Contempt— 

" Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, fo« 

Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." 157 5 

Johnson, London. 

288 Contempt— 

" It is a dangerous fond hardiness, and of consequence, 
besides the absurd temerity it draws with it, to despise 
what we conceive not." — Montaigne, Essays. 

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389 Contempt— also 

"The basest and meanest of all human beings are 
generally the most forward to despise others ; so that the 
most contemptible are generally the most contemptuous." 

Fielding. 

290 Contentment— 

" There is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, Happi- 

No chemic art can counterfeit ; ness 

It makes men rich in greatest poverty, 930 

Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold, 1386 

The homely whistle to sweet music's strain ; 
Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent, 
That much in little — all in nought — Content." 

Elizabethan Song, 

291 Contentment— 

" The noblest mind the best contentment has." 

Spenser, Faerie Queen. 

292 Contradiction— 

"That which is reasonable and that which is unreason- 1424 
able have both to encounter the like contradiction." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

293 Contradiction, Calmness under — 

i i Calmness under contradiction is demonstrative of great 76 
stupidity or strong intellect." — Zimmermann. 1235 

294 Controversy— 

" thought-sick and tired 

Of controversy." 

Lamb, The Sabbath Bells. 

295 Conventional in Art, The— 

" Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer 431 
of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his 1417 
utmost power a Man. We must drape him, and give 1422 
him a certain conventional simper. Society will not 16-0 
tolerate the Natural in our Art." 

Thackeray, Preface to Pe?idennis. 

296 Conventional Knowledge— Autbor- 

lty, Con- 

" The most foolish of ideas is that every one believes formity 
himself compelled to hand down that which people think 899, 963 
they have known." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 1370 

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297 Conventionality— 

" Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own, 
But catch the spreading notion of the town ; 
They reason and conclude by precedent, 
And own stale nonsense which they ne'er invent. 
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then 
Not praise the writings, but the men." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

298 Conversation— 

" The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well 4©5 
as of being heard." — Hazlitt, Essays, 

299 Conversation— 

" It is as offensive to speak wit in a fool's company, as 
it would be ill manners to whisper in it ; he is displeased 
at both for the same reason, because he is ignorant of 
what is said."— Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

300 Conversation — 

" For my conversation, it is like the sun's, with all men, 4°5 
and with a friendly aspect to good and bad. Methinks I20 4 
there is no man bad, and the worst, best ; that is, while 
they are kept within the circle of those qualities wherein 
they are good : there is no man's mind of such discordant 
and jarring a temper, to which a tunable disposition may 
not strike a harmony." — BROWNE, Religio Medici, 

301 Conversation— 

" Talk as if you were making your will : the fewer words 1637 
the less litigation." 1638 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 

302 Conversation, Intellectual — 

" Intellectual conversation, whether grave or humor- Society 
ous, is only fit for intellectual society ; it is downright 2 9<> 
abhorrent to ordinary people, to please whom it is 867 
absolutely necessary to be commonplace and dull." 136° 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, 

303 Conversing— 

11 With thee conversing I forgot all time." 

MlLTON, Paradise Lost. 

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304 Conviction— a iso 

" Every fool is fully convinced, and every one fully 1361 
persuaded is a fool : the more erroneous the judgment the 
more firmly he holds it." 

BALTHASAR Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 

305 Cooks— 

M Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends cooks." 
Garrick, Epigram on Goldsmith 's Retaliation. 

306 Corporations— 

"Corporations have no souls." — Sir Edward Coke. 

307 Counsellors — 

" In the multitude of counsellors there is safety." 

Book of Proverbs. 

308 Countenance, Expression of— 

"It is good that a man's face give his tongue leave to 66g 
speak. For the discovery of a man's self by the tracts 1319 
of his countenance is a great weakness, and betraying ; 1462 
by how much it is many times more marked and believed 
than a man's words." — Bacon, Essays. 

309 Country and Town— 

" God made the country, and man made the town." 

Cowper, The Task. 

310 Country, Dying for One's— 

" How blest is he who for his country dies." 

Horace, Odes (Dean Swift). 

311 Courage— 

"No man can answer for his courage who has never Bravery, 
been in danger." — La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. Coward 

312 Courage— 

" Screw your courage to the sticking place." 

Shakespeare, Macbeth 

313 Courtesy— PrlIte . 

" If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it ness 
shows he is a citizen of the world ; and that his heart is 4 l8 >453 
no island, cut off from other lands, but a continent that 486 
joins to them." — BACON, Essays. *°79 

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314 Courtier, The— a i S9 

" The two maxims of any great man at court are, always 
to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word." 
Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

315 Cowardice— 

" There is a cowardice which we do not despise, be- 
cause it has nothing" base or treacherous in its elements ; 
it betrays itself, not you ; it is mere temperament ; the 
absence of the romantic and the enterprising ; it sees a 
lion in the way, and will not, with Fortinbras, * greatly 
find quarrel in a straw,' when some supposed honour 
is at stake." — Lamb, Essays of Elia, 

316 Cowards— 

" All men would be cowards if they durst." 383 

Earl of Rochester. 

317 Credulity— 

" Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's 
strength." — Lamb, Essays of Elia, 

3x8 Creeds— Faithj 

"Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side Relig- 

In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? " lon,S 2£ i 

Moore, Come Send Round the Wine. 751 ' ^ 

~ . 1559 

319 Crime — 

" Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by 1553 
crime." — Alfieri, Oreste. 

320 Critical— 

" I am nothing if not critical." — Shakespeare, Othello, 

321 Criticism— 

" Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. In any 
attempt to criticize another's work, the range of know- 
ledge possessed by the critic is as essential a part of 
his verdict as the claims of the work itself." 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, 

322 Criticism— 

(i Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and 
blossoms together." — Richter, Titan. 

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323 Criticism— also 

"To understand the principles of criticism is one thin^ ; *42i 
to be what is called critical, is another ; the first is like 
being versed in jurisprudence, the other like being 
litigious. ,, — SOUTHEY, Colloquies on Society, 

324 Criticism— 

"It is quite wrong to try to introduce into literature Books 
the same toleration as must necessarily prevail in society 
towards those stupid, brainless people who everywhere 
swarm in it. In literature such people are impudent 
intruders ; and to disparage the bad is here duty 
towards the good ; for he who thinks nothing bad will 
think nothing good either." 

Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

325 Criticism— 

" If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to 
complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next 
age would not know that they ever had any." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

326 Criticism— 

" Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend 1303 
himself. He must act in spite of it, and then criticism 
will gradually give in to him." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

327 Criticism, Coolness in— 

"What is called critical coolness seems, no doubt, on 
a cursory view, an excellent qualification in a judge of 
literature ; but true criticism, when it approaches the 
work of the masters, can never be quite cool. To be 
cool before the Lear or the Macbeth were simply not to 
feel what is there ; and it is the critic's business to feel, 
just as much as to see." 

William Watson, Excursions in Criticism. 

328 Critics— 

" The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, 
are both on one side, like a turbot's." 

Landor, Imaginary Conversations. 

329 Cross, The— 

" The cross once seen is death to every vice." 

Cowper, Progress of Error* 
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330 Crowd, The— also 

" I hate the profane and vulgar herd and shun it." Multi- 

Horace, Carmina. p^'^ 
131 Crown— xo^ 1 

" Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. 

332 Cruelty— 

" Amongst all other vices, there is none I hate more than Inhu- 
cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest m amty 
of all vices." — Montaigne, Essays. x 5 2 3 

333 Cunning— 

" It is not ferocity but cunning that strikes fear into the 
heart and forbodes danger ; so true it is that the human 
brain is a more terrible weapon than the lion's paw." 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

334 Cups— 

" the cups 

"That cheer but not inebriate." 

Cowper, The Task. 
S35 Curses— 

"Curses not loud, but deep." — Shakespeare, Macbeth. 

336 Custom— CWen- 

" The first part of custom's corruption is the banishment tionality, 
of truth." — Montaigne, Essays. Habit, 

Reason, 
^37 Custom — etc. 

"Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

338 Cynicism — 

" Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the cox- 
comb's feathers." — Meredith, The Egoist. 

339 Danger — 

" Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.'* 

Hazlitt, Essays. 

340 Dangerous— 

" There is no one who is not dangerous for somebody." 
Madame de Sevigne, Letters. 

341 Dangers — 

" Nay, it were better to meet some dangers half way, 
though they come nothing near, than to keep too long 
a watch upon their approaches ; for if a man watch too 
long, it is odds he will fall asleep." — Bacon, Essays, 
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34a DaWd- *» 

" Grey grows the dawn while men folk sleep, 
Unseen spreads on the light, 
Till the thrush sings to the coloured things, 
And earth forgets the night.'' 

William Morris, The Day of Days. 

343 Dawn— 

" See, the Dawn from Heaven is breaking 
O'er our sight, 
And earth, from sin awaking, 
Hails the light ! " 

Moore, See the Dawn from Heaven. 

344 Dawn— 

" Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. 

345 Dead, The— 

" Deep-hearted man, express Grief 

Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death ; 722 

Most like a monumental statue set 
In everlasting watch and moveless woe 
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath. 
Touch it : the marble eyelids are not wet — 
If it could weep, it could arise and go." 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet. 

346 Dead, The— 

" O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone 6gg 
to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for 
the light answers we returned to their plaints or their 
pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that 
sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the 
divinest thing God had given us to know ! " 

George Eliot, Amos Barton. 

347 Dead, The— 

" Whom next shall we summon from the dusty dead, in I43I 
whom common qualities become uncommon ? " 

Lamb, Essays of Elia. 

348 Dead, Sorrow for the— 

" The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which Memory, 
we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek Grief, 
to heal — every other affliction to forget ; but this wound Sorrow i 
we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we 
cherish and brood over in solitude." 

Washington Irving, Sketch Book. 

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349 Dead, The— a lso 

" 'Ah,' said Mrs. Poyser, 'an' it's poor work allays 1431 
settin' the dead above the livin'. We shall all on us be dead 
some time, I reckon — it 'ud be better if folks 'ud make much 
on us beforehand, istid o' beg-innin' when we're gone. 
It's but little g-ood you'll do a-wateriug" the last year's 
crop.' " — George Eliot, Adam Bede. 

350 Dead Child, The— 

" Oh ! when a Mother meets on high 38a 

The Babe she lost in infancy, 
Hath she not then, for pains and fears, 
The day of woe, the watchful night, 
For all her sorrow, all her tears, 
An overpayment of delight ? " 

Southey, Curse of Kehama. 

351 Dead Child, The— 

" O it is hard 
To take the little corpse, and lay it low, 
And say, ■ None misses it but me.' " 

George Eliot, Armgart. 
353 Death— 

" O end to which our currents tend, Here- 

Inevitable sea, after 

To which we flow, what do we know, 645 

What shall we guess of thee ? " 

Arthur Hugh Clough, The Stream of Life. 

353 Death— 

" The rich, the poor, the great, the small 794 

Are levelled ; death confounds them all." 1418 

Gay, Fables. 

354 Death— 

" I thank God I have not those strait ligaments, or 
narrow obligations to the world, as to dote on life, or be 
convulst and tremble at the name of death." 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

355 Death— 

" Dust and ashes ! So you croak it, and I want the 
heart to scold. 
Dear dead women, with such hair, too — what's 

become of all the g"old 
Used to hang and brush their brows ? I feel chill, 
and grown old." 

Browning, A Toccata of GaluppVs. 

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356 Death— a i so 

" And we that now make merry in the Room 
They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, 
Ourselves must lie beneath the Couch of Earth, 
Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom ? " 
Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald). 

357 Death— 

" Death shall join to part no more." 

Burns, The Tears I Shed Must Ever Fall 

358 Death— 

" There is therefore but one comfort left, that though 97© 
it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, 
it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death." 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

359 Death— 

" There's yet a world where souls are free, 
Where tyrants taint not nature's bliss ; 
If death that world's bright opening- be, 
Oh ! who would live a slave in this ? " 

Moore, After the Battle. 

360 Death— 

" Death is a gate of dreariness and gloom 
That leads to azure isles and beaming skies, 
And happy regions of eternal hope." 

Shelley, Queen Mab. 

361 Death— 

" O death ! the poor man's dearest friend, the kindest 

and the best ! 
Welcome the hour my aged limbs are laid with thee 

at rest ! 
The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, from pomp 

and pleasure torn ! 
But oh ! a bless'd relief to those that, weary-laden 

mourn." — Burns, Man Was Made to Mourn. 

36a Death— 

" Thrice welcome death ! 
That after many a painful bleeding step 
Conducts us to our home, and lands us safe 
On the long-wish'd-for shore." 

Blair, The Grave. 

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363 Death— 

"What is't to die? 
To leave all disappointment, cares and sorrow, 
To leave all falsehood, treachery, and unkindness, 
All ignominy, suffering-, and despair, 
And be at rest for ever ! O, dull heart, 
Be of good cheer ! When thou shalt cease to beat 
Then shalt thou cease to suffer and complain." 

Longfellow, The Spanish Student. 

364 Death— 

" The end of life cancels all bands." 

Shakespeare, i Henry IV. 

365 Death — 

" Away ! we know that tears are vain, 
That Death nor heeds nor hears distress : 
Will this unteach us to complain ? 
Or make one mourner weep the less ? 
And thou, who tell'st me to forget, 
Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet." 

Byron, Elegy. 

366 Death— 

" Pale Death knocks with impartial foot 
At Prince's hall and peasant's hut." 

Horace, Odes. 

367 Death— 

" Learn then, ye living ! by the mouths be taught 
Of all those sepulchres, instructors true, 
That, soon or late, death also is your lot, 

And the next opening grave may yawn for you." 

Cowper, Stanzas, 

368 Death— 

" There is no death ; what seems so is transition, 
This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, 
Whose portal we call death." 

Longfellow, Resignation, 

369 Death— 

" There is a tear for all that die, 
A mourner o'er the humblest grave." 

Byron, Elegiac Stanzas, 

370 Death— 

" Death is a friend of ours ; and he that is not ready to 
entertain him is not at home." — Bacon, Essay on Death, 
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377 Death- 



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371 Death— a / s0 

" When Death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is 
never our tenderness we repent of, but our severity." 

George Eliot, Adam Bede. 

372 Death— 

" When you and I behind the Veil are past, Life, 

Oh, but the long, long while the world shall last, World, 

Which of our Coming or Departing heeds 
As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast." 

Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald). 

373 Death— 

" There is no flock, however watched and tended, 
But one dead lamb is there ! 
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, 
But has one vacant chair." 

Longfellow, Resignation. 

374 Death— 

" all that lives must die, 
Passing through nature to eternity." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, 

375 Death— 

" Death's but a path that must be trod 
If man would ever pass to God : 
A port of calms, a state of ease 
From the rough rage of swelling seas." 

Parnell, Night Piece on Death. 



" To live in hearts we leave behind Mem- 

Is not to die." — Campbell, Hallowed Ground. or y» 



" Death has left on her 
Only the beautiful." 

Hood, Bridge of Sighs. 

378 Death— 

" O, she's gone again ! There the cords of life broke." 
Webster, Duchess of Malfi. 

379 Death— 

" Vex not his ghost : O, let him pass ! he hates him 
That would upon the rack of this tough world 
Stretch him out longer." — Shakespeare, King Lear. 
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380 Death and Immortality— a / s0 

" The old, old fashion — Death ! Oh, thank God all who Here- 
see it, for that older fashion yet, of Immortality ! " after, 

Dickens, Dombey and Son. immor- 

* tality, 

381 Death and Sleep— etc. 

" How wonderful is Death — 1568 

Death, and his brother Sleep : 
One, pale as yonder waning moon, 
With lips of lurid blue ; 
The other rosy as the morn 
When throned on ocean's wave, 
It blushes o'er the world ; 
Yet both so passing wonderful ! M 

^Shelley, Queen Mab. 

382 Death in Childhood— 

" Happy are ye, little human ephemera ! Ye played 233 
only in the ascending beams, and in the early dawn, and 
in the eastern light ; ye drank only of the prelibations of 
life ; hovered for a little space over a world of freshness 
and of blossoms ; and fell asleep in innocence before the 
morning dew was exhaled ! " 

Richter, De Quincey's Analects. 

383 Death to a Coward — 

'■* Cowards die many times before thevr deaths, 
The valiant never taste of death but once." 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar. 

384 Death = bed— 

" Is there not the fifth act of a Tragedy in every death- 
bed, thoug-h it were a peasant's, and a bed of heath ? " 

Carlyle, Burns. 

385 Deceit— 

" O what a tangled web we weave Lies, 

When first we practise to deceive." Lying 

Scott, Marmion. 

386 Defects— 

11 Their own defect, invisible to them, Faults, 

Seen in another, they at once condemn, Judg- 

And, though self-idolized in every case, Sk^ 1 ' 

Hate their own likeness in a brother's face." 

Cowper, Conversation* 

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387 Defects— also 

" A man who shows no defects is a fool or a hypocrite, 
whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to 
fine qualities that they announce them, defects which it is 
well not to correct." — Joubert, Thoughts. 

388 Defects— 

" Trust not thyself ; but your defects to know, 
Make use of every friend — and every foe." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

389 Defects, Natural — 

" Scoff not at the natural defects of any, which are not 
in their power to amend. Oh, 'tis cruelty to beat a 
cripple with his own crutches." 

Fuller, Holy and Profane States. 

390 Defects of Others, The— 

" Defects are recognized only by those who do not 
love ; therefore in order to perceive them, a man must 
become uncharitable, but not more so than is necessary 
for the purpose." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

391 Delay— 

" All delay is unpleasant, but we are the wiser for it." 787 

Bacon, Ornamenta Rationalia. 

392 Delay— 

" I cannot brook dela.y." 

Shakespeare, 3 Henry VI. 

393 Delight- Happi . 

"That unrest which men miscall delight." ness, 

Shelley, Adonais. Pleasure 

394 Delusion— 993, n* 

"Alas ! it is delusion all : Life, 

The future cheats us from afar, etc * 

Nor can we be what we recall, 
Nor dare we think on what we are." 

Byron, Stanzas for Music. 

395 Deportment— 

" A man's deportment is a mirror in which each one 
displays his image." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

396 Desert, Using a Man after his— Char- 

" Use every man after his desert, and who shall 'scape acter 
whipping ? " — Shakespeare, Hamlet. 53a 

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397 Desires— a lso 

" The stoical system of supptying our wants by lopping- 993 
off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want 1785 
shoes." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

398 Despair— 

" Then black despair, 
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown 
Over the world in which I moved alone." 

Shelley, Revolt of Islam. 

399 Despair— 

" Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we Hope, 
should be taught that no human condition should inspire Misery, 
men with absolute despair." — Fielding. Sorrow 

400 Despair— 

" noble minds contemn 
Despair."— Marlowe, Edward I L 

401 Desperate Steps— 

" Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, 
Live till to-morrow, will have passed away." 

Cowper, The Needless Alarm. 

402 Destiny— 

" Rashly, 678 

And praised be rashness for it, let us know, 874 

Our indiscretion sometime serves us well 
When our deep plots do pall ; and that should learn us 
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Roug-h-hew them how we will." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

403 Destiny— 

" Whate'er our rank may be, Death. 

We all partake one common destiny." Lits 

Horace, Odes (Theodore Martin). 

404 Destruction— 

" E'en now the devastation is begun, 

And half the business of destruction done." 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village. 

405 Dialogue, Pleasant— 

" Identity of sentiment, difference of opinion : these are Convers- 
the known elements of a pleasant dialogue." ation, 

Carlyle, Life of Sterling. TaIkln e 
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406 Difficulties — also 

" Our difficulties increase the nearer we approach our 
aim." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

407 Difficulty— 

' ' Difficulty is a severe instruction, set over us by the Failure 
supreme ordinance of a paternal guardian and legislator, 
who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves 
us better too." 

Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France* 

408 Dilettanti, Young — 

" The importunity of young dilettanti should be borne 
with good will, for as they grow older they become the 
truest worshippers of art and the master." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

409 Dinner-bell, The— 

"The tocsin of the soul — the dinner-bell." 

Byron, Don Juan. 

410 Dirt— 

" Some dirt sticks longer than other dirt ; but no dirt Abuse 
is immortal." — Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua. 

411 Discouragement — 

" Discouragement is but disenchanted egotism." 

Mazzini, Lamennais. 

412 Disgrace— 

"The pain, as well as the public estimate of disgrace, Con- 
depends on the amount of previous profession. To men science 
who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the 
prisoner's dock is disgrace." 

George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

413 Disgrace— 

" Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one 
thinks it dead."— Plautus, Persa. 

414 Dish, A — 

" A dish fit for the gods." — Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar. 

415 Dispute— 

" A good cause needs not to be patroned by passion, Abuse 
but can sustain itself upon a temperate dispute." 76 

Browne, Religio Medici. 1483 
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416 Disputes— also 

" It is in disputes as in armies ; where the weaker side 75 
sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, tc make the 
enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they 
really are."— SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

417 Distance— 

" 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view." 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope. 

418 Distance, Keeping One's— 

" If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, 313 
he keeps his at the same time." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

419 Distinction— Ambi . 

" It is natural in every man to wish for distinction." tion, 

Sydney Smith. Reputa- 

420 Distinctions— tlon 

" Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much 213 
easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate 897 
the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it 961 
really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your 
mind that your neighbour is good for rohing, than to 
enter into all the circumstances that wou'd oblige you to 
modify that opinion." — George Eliot, Amos Barton, 

421 Distress— 

" Distress does not debase noble minds; it only changes 1600 
the scene, and gives them new glory by that alteration." 

Steele, Essays. 

422 Distrust— 

" What loneliness is more lonely than distrust ? " 

George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

423 Doctors— 

"Who shall decide, when doctors disagree ? " 

POPE, Moral Essays. 

424 Dog— 

" His faithful dog shall bear him company." 

POPE, Essay on Man. 

425 Dogs— 

"As many dogs there be, 

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, 
And curs of low degree." 

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426 Doubt, Honest— a i s0 

" There lives more faith in honest doubt, Faith, 

Believe me, than in half the creeds." Sects* 5 ' 

Tennyson, In Memoriatn. ^ 2 gg- 

427 Doubts— 

1 'There is, as in philosophy, so in divinity, sturdy 1510 
doubts and boisterous objections, wherewith the unhappi- 
ness of our knowledge too nearly acquainteth us." 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

428 Drama, The— 

" The stage but echoes back the public voice ; 
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, 
For we that live to please, must please to live." 

Johnson, Prologue at Drury Lane. 

429 Dramatic Writing— 

" To compose a dramatic work, genius is required. 
Feeling should predominate at the end, reason in the 
middle, and understanding at the commencement, and all 
these should be represented in due proportions by means 
of a vivid and clear power of imagination." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

430 Dreadful, The— 

"All things are less dreadful than they seem." 

Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets. 

431 Dream, A— 

" A dream itself, yet less, perhaps, than that 1336 

Thou call'st reality." — Shelley, Hellas. 1339 

432 Dreams— 

" Cease, Dreams, th' imag'ry of our day-desires, 
To model forth the passions of the morrow, 
Never let rising sun approve you liars, 
To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow, 
Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain ; 
And never wake to find the day's disdain." 

Daniel, Care-Charmer Sleep. 

433 Drink— 

"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I Wint 
have no occasion." — Cervantes, Don Quixote. 4a 

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434 Dulness— also 

" Intellectual dulness is at the bottom of that vacuity of Intel- 
soul which is stamped on so many faces, a state of mind le ^» 
which betrays itself by a constant and lively attention to e 
all the trivial circumstances in the external world.'' 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

435 Dunce, The— 

" How much a dunce, that has been sent to roam, 
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home." 

COWPER, Progress of Error. 

436 Early Days— 

" Oh ! enviable, early days, Boy- 

When dancing-, thoughtless, pleasure's maze — Youth 

To care, to guilt unknown ! 
How T ill exchanged for riper times, 
To feel the follies, or the crimes, 

Of others, or my own ! " — Burns, Despondency. 

437 Earnestness — 

" Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in 268 
life." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 460 

438 Eccentricity— 

" Even a wilful or absurd eccentricity is some support 491 
against the weighty common-place conformity of the 540 
world. If it were not for some singular people who per- 1300 
sist in thinking for themselves, in seeing for themselves, 
and in being comfortable, we should all collapse into a 
hideous conformity." — Helps, Friends in Council. 

439 Economy, Regard for — 

M The regard one shows economy is like that we show 
an old aunt, who is to leave us something at last." 

Shenstone. 

440 Education — 

" By education a person is exalted to a god ; by educa- 843 
tion he is converted to a devil ; by education he is degraded 
to a brute."— Savage. 

441 Education — 

" The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the 

good, or the great man, very often lie hid or concealed 

in a plebeian, which a proper education might have dis- 

intened, and have brought to light."— Addison, Spectator, 

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443 Education— X 

" For parents to hope everything from the good educa- 
tion they bestow on their children is an excess of con- 
fidence ; and it is an equally great mistake to expect 
nothing, and to neglect it." — La Bruyere, Characters* 

443 Egoism— 

"Some valuing those of their own size or mind, 208 

Still make themselves the measure of mankind : 
Fondly we think we honour merit then, 
When we but praise ourselves in other men." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

444 Egoism and Sincerity— 

" The egoism which enters into our theories does not 
affect their sincerity ; rather, the more our egoism is satis- 
fied, the more robust is our belief." 

George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

445 Egoism— 

"Of such mighty importance every man is to himself, 
and ready to think he is so to others ; without once 
making this easy and obvious reflection, that his affairs 
can have no more weight with other men, than theirs have 
of him ; and how little that is, he is sensible enough." 

Swift, Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation. 

446 Eloquence— 

" With eloquence innate his tongue was armed." 1472 

Dryden. 1847 

447 Encyclopaedia, The Best — 

" Clever persons are always the best encyclopaedia." 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

448 Enemies— 

" He makes no friend who never made a foe." 

Tennyson, Elaine. 

449 Enemies, The Criticism of — 

" Get your enemies to read your works, in order to 
mend them ; for your friend is so much your second self, 
that he will judge, too, like you." 

Pope, Thoughts on Va7'ious Subjects. 

450 Enemies, The Use of— 

" Your friends will tell you that they are sincere ; your 
enemies are really so. Let your enemies' censure be like 
a bitter medicine, to be used as a means of self-know* 
ledge." — Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 
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451 Enemy— a ho 

" Be able for thine enemy 5 8 7 

Rather in power than use." 
Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well. 

452 Enemy— 

" Speak not ill of a great enemy, but rather give him 1255 
good words, that he may use you the better if you chance 
to fall into his hands." — Selden, Table Talk. 

453 Enemy, Treatment of an— 

" Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone 
thine enemy." — Hesiod, Works and Days. 

454 England— 

" And yet, with all thy theoretic platitudes, what a 
depth of practical sense in thee, great England ! A depth 
of sense, of justice, of courage ; in which, under all 
emergencies and world-bewilderments, and under this 
most complex of emergencies we now live in, there is still 
hope, there is still assurance ! " 

Carlyle, Past and Present. 

455 England— 

" That island of England breeds very valiant creatures." 
Shakespeare, i Henry IV. 

456 England— 

" Nought shall make us rue, 
If England to itself do rest but true." 

Shakespeare, King John. 

457 England— 

" England, with all thy faults I love thee still." 

Cowper, The Task. 

458 England, The History of— 

" The history of England is emphatically the history of 
progress. It is the history of a constant movement of the 
public mind, of a constant change in the institutions of a 
great society." — Macaulay, Essays. 

459 England, The Naval Glory of— 

" Others may use the ocean as their road, 
Only the English make it their abode, 
Whose ready sails with every wind can fly, 
And make a covenant with th' inconstant sky : 
Our oaks secure as if they there took root, 
We tread on billows with a steady foot." 

Waller, Verses on a War with Spain. 
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460 Enthusiasm— a / S0 

" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. , ' 268 

Emerson, Circles. 437 

461 Enthusiasm— 

" Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth 
accomplishes no victories without it." 

LYTTON, Last Days of Pompeii. 

462 Enthusiasts, Incapable — 

" Enthusiasts without capacity are the really dangerous 
people. " — Schopenhauer. 

463 Envious Man, The — 

"The only sure way to an envious man's favour is not 
to deserve it." — Steele, Essays. 

464 Envy— 

" Hatred is an active displeasure, envy a passive. It 
ought, therefore, not to surprise us that envy turns so soon 
to hatred. ,, — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

4S5 Envy— 

" Envy is as the sunbeams, that beat hotter upon a Jealousy 
bank or steep rising ground than upon a flat." 

Bacon, Essays. 

466 Envy— 

" Base envy withers at another's joy, 
And hates that excellence it cannot reach." 

Thomson, The Seasons. 

467 Envy— 

" For envy never dwells in noble hearts." 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite. 

468 Errand— 

" I will not eat till I have told mine errand." 

Book of Genesis. 

469 Error— 

" Error is ever talkative." — Goldsmith, Letters. 565 

470 Error — 

" Love truth, but pardon error." Truth 

Voltaire, Discours Sur V Homme. 

471 Error— 

"Even though a man discover the cause of an error, it 
does not follow that he will succeed in ridding himself of 
that error." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 
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472 Errors— also 

" It is really the errors of a man that make him lovable." 537 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

473 Errors of the Age, The— 

" With regard to the errors of the age, it is difficult to Con- 
know what course to adopt. If you strive against them, f °rmity 
you stand alone ; if you give in to them, they bring you 2q6 
neither honour nor joy." X702 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

474 Erudition— 

" The safest way of having no thoughts of one's own is Pedan- 
to take up a book every moment one has nothing else to tr Y 
do. It is this practice which explains why erudiiion makes l62 > 57* 
most men more stupid and silly than they are by nature, 943> 945 
and prevents their writings obtaining any measure of X 4 J 9 
success."— Schopenhauer, Art of Literature, 

475 Etiquette — 

" Neither affect nor despise etiquette : he cannot be great 
who is great at such little things." 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom, 

476 Etiquette— 

"There is a pedantry in manners, as in all arts and 
sciences, and sometimes in trades. Pedantry is properly 
the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. 
And if that kind of knowledge be a trifle in itself, the 
pedantry is the greater." 

Swift, Treatise on Good Manners* 

477 Evil— 

" There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can sin 
bear the punishment alone : you can't isolate yourself, and 
say that the evil which is in you shall not spread. Men's 
lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air 
they breathe : evil spreads as necessarily as disease." 

George Eliot, Adam Bede, 

478 Evil— 

" The very curse of an evil deed is that it must always 
continue to engender evil." — Schiller, Piccolomini, 

479 Evil— 

" Evil is wrought by want of thought, 
As well as want of heart." 

Hood, The Lady's Dream, 
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480 Evil — also 

" None are all evil." — Byron, The Corsair. Judg- 

ment, 

481 Evil — Mercy 

" The evil that men do lives after them ; x 32» x 555 

The good is oft interred with their bones." x 74 x 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar. 

482 Evil, Goodness in Things— 

" There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 
Would men observingly distil it out." 

Shakespeare, Henry V. 

483 Evil, Relativity of Good and— 

" If we rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we Char- 
shall find it lies l^uch in comparison." — Locke. acter 

804,1650 

484 Evils, Imaginary— 

" Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know 
we have so many real ones to encounter." 

Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man. 

485 Exactness — 

" Exactness is the sublimity of fools." Words 

Unknown (French). 

486 Example— 

" Example is a dangerous lure ; where the wasp got 
through, the gnat stuck fast." — La Fontaine, Fables. 

487 Experience — 

"When experience boasts that to its discoveries alone 1717 
is due the advancement of the human race, it is as though 
the mouth were to claim the whole credit of maintaining 
the body in health."— Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

488 Experience — 

"Experience teaches even fools." — Latin Proverb. 

489 Explanation— 

" Let the wise be warned against too great readiness of 
explanation : it multiplies the sources of mistake, length- 
ening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong." 

George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

490 Expression, Concise— 

" Ordinary human beings are always better skilled in the 
art of expressing things concisely than those who are 
really cultured." — Goethe, Reflections and A/axims. 
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491 Extraordinary, The— a lso 

" Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but 438 
be ordinary in your display of it." 1360 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom, 

492 Extraordinary, The — 

"All actions beyond the ordinary limits are subject to 706, 714 
some sinister interpretation. Forasmuch as our taste doth n 5 5 
no more come into that which is above it than to that 1224 
which is under it." — Montaigne, Essays, 1300 

493 Face, A Beautiful— 

"A beautiful face is a silent commendation." 

Bacon, Omamenta Rationalia. 

494 Face, An Enchanting— 

" Trust not too much to an enchanting- face." 

Virgil, Eclogues (Dryden). 

495 Failings— 

" Even in friendship it is rare to expose one's failings to Faults, 
one's friend. Nay, one should conceal them from oneself Confid- 
if one can. But here one can help with that other great ences 
rule of life ; learn to forget. " 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 

496 Failure — 

" There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great 
object." — Keats, Preface to Endymion. 

497 Failure — 

"The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in 407 
cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best." 601 

George Eliot, Felix Holt, 

498 Failure— 

" Better have failed in the high aim, as I, On'gin- 

Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, — ality 

As, God be thanked ! I do not." 1093 

Browning, The Inn Album. 

499 Failure, Advantages of— 

" Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent 615 
misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to 
success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads 
us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh 
experience points out some form of error which we shall 
afterward carefully eschew." — Keats. 

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500 Faith— also 

" Whose faith has centre everywhere, Religion, 

Nor cares to fix itself to form." 5** s 

Tennyson, In Memoriam. 7 ' I559 

501 Faith— 

" It is required you do awake your faith." 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale. 

502 Faith— 

" His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right." 

Cowley, On the Death of Crashaw. 

503 Faith— 

" Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast 
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last." 

Moore, Lalla Rookh. 

504 Faith and Reason— 

" Thus the Devil played at chess with me, and yielding Doubt 
a Pawn, thought to gain a Queen of me, taking advantage 
of my honest endeavours ; and whilst I laboured to raise 
the structure of my Reason, he strived to undermine the 
edifice of my Faith." — Browne, Religio Medici. 

505 Fall, A— 

"There needs no art to further a fall." Mercy, 

Montaigne, Essays. Charity, 

506 False — 

" All is not false that seems at first a lie." g6a 

Southey, Saint Gualberto. X 6gg 

507 False— 

" My mirth is changed for misery, 
She's false whom I adore." 

Lamb, Comic Opera, 

508 Falsehood— 

" Order and Falsehood cannot subsist together." Truth, 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. Lies, 

509 Falsehood and Truth— 

" Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult." 

George Eliot, Adam Bede. 

510 Fame — 

u There is no path so steep as that of fame." 

Hazlitt, Actors and Acting, 

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5" Fame— also 

" And what is fame? the meanest have their day, Glory, 

The greatest can but blaze, and pass away." Reputa- 

Pope, Satires and Epistles. tlon 

512 Fame — 

" Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to 4 g6 
taste of Fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a 
hell ! " — Lytton, Last of the Barons. 

513 Fame— 

" To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous 
history." — Browne, Urn Burial. 

514 Fame— 

" What's fame, a fanciful life in others' breath, 193 

A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death." 

Pope, Essay on Man. 
*i5 Fame — 

" The heights by great men reached and kept Great- 

Were not attained by sudden flight, ness 

But they, while their companions slept, 
Were toiling upward in the night." 

Longfellow, Ladder of S. Augustine. 

516 Fame — 

" What is fame 5^ 

But the benignant strength of One, transformed 
To joy of many ? Tributes, plaudits come 
As necessary breathing of such joy, 
And may they come to me ! " 

George Eliot, Armgart. 

517 Fame, Literary — 

"The average man has no critical power of his own, Books, 
and is absolutely incapable of appreciating the difficulty Criticism, 
of a great work. People are always swayed by authority ; Puljlic 
and where fame is widespread, it means that ninety-nine ^ 9 
out of a hundred take it on faith alone." 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

518 Familiarity — 

" Familiarity is never desirable ; with superiors because 
it is dangerous, with inferiors because it is unbecoming, 
least of all with the common herd, who become insolent 
from sheer folly ; they mistake favour shown them for 
need felt of them." 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 

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519 Family, The— * aho 

" He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to 105 
fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, 
either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and 
of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the 
unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and 
means have married and endowed the public." 

Bacon, Essays, 

520 Fancy— 

" Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, I33g 

Scatters from her pictured urn 
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." 
Gray, Progress of Poesy. 



521 Fancy— 



522 Fancy- 



Ever let the fancy roam ! 
Pleasure never is at home." 

Keats, Fancy. 



11 Tell me where is fancy bred, 
Or in the heart, or in the head ? " 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

523 Farewell, A— 

" Farewell, my friends ! farewell, my foes ! n 

My peace with these, my love with those." 

Burns, The Bonnie Banks of Ayr. 

524 Farewell, A — 

i i Fare thee well ! and if for ever, 
Still for ever, fare thee well." 

Byron, Fare Thee Well. 

525 Fashions, Old— 

"Old fashions please me best." 1251 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew. 



526 Fat— 

527 Fate— 



11 He's fat and scant of breath." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

Fate steals along with silent tread, 
Found oftenest in what least we dread, 
Frowns in the storm with angry brow, 
But in the sunshine strikes the blow." 

Cowper, A Fable, 
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528 Fate— a i s0 

" Fate could not choose a more malicious hour." 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite. 

529 Fate — 

" Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate 
I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate ; 
And many a knot unravel'd by the Road ; 
But not the Master-Knot of Human Fate." 

Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald). 

530 Fate— 

" Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate." 

Pope, Essays on Man, 

531 Fault, A Common— 

"It is a common fault to be never satisfied with our 604 
fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding-." 

La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. 

532 Faultless— 

" Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, 39 s 

Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

533 Faults— 

"Certain faults are necessary to the existence of the 8 39 
individual. We should not like to see old friends lay 
aside certain of their peculiarities." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

534 Faults— 

" In other men we faults can spy, Sin, 

And blame the mote that dims their eye, Mercy 

Each little speck and blemish find, Charity 

To our own stronger errors blind." 269 

Gay, Fables. 

535 Faults— 

" Faults? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be 999 
conscious of none." — Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 

536 Faults— 

"Be careful then to avoid being a registrar of faults. Judgment 
That is to be an abominable thing, a man that lives without 581, 1404 
a heart." — Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 1467, 1564 

537 Faults— 

" It is well there is no one without a fault ; for he would 472 
not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong 
to a different species." — Hazlitt, Characteristics. 
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538 Faults— * /so 

" And we see that blemishes grow either lesser or bigger 
according to the eminence and light of the place where 
they are set, and that a mole or a wart in one's forehead 
is more apparently perceived than a scar in another place." 

Montaigne, Essays, 

539 Faults— 

" They say best men are moulded out of faults." 13 2 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. 559 

540 Faults— 

"Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, 247 
has come of a hard sorrow, which has crushed and 606 
maimed the nature just when it was expanding into 
plenteous beauty ; and the trivial erring life which we 
visit with our harsh blame, may be but as the unsteady 
motion of a man whose best limb is withered." 

George Eliot, Mr. Gilflfs Love-story. 

541 Faults— 

" He is all fault, who hath no fault at all." 

Tennyson, Launcelot and Elaine. 

542 Faults— 

" Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray 620 
your own." — Syrus, Maxims. 

543 Faults— 

"For many faults do often escape our eyes; but the 390 
infirmity of judgment consisteth in not being able to 1174 
perceive them when another discovereth them unto us." 

Montaigne, Essays. 

544 Favour— 

" Favour, as a symbol of sovereignty, is practised by 
weak men." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

545 Favourite, A— 

" A fav'rite has no friend." 

Gray, On the Death of a Favourite Cat. 

546 Fear— 

" The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. 1526 
We must get rid of Fear ; we cannot act at all till then. 
A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious ; his very 
thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward, 
till he have got Fear under his feet." 

Carlyle, Hero- Worship. 
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547 Fear— also 

" The honour we receive of those which fear and stand 
in awe of us, is no true honour." — Montaigne, Essays. 

548 Fear, A— 

" A faint cold fear thrills through my veins." 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. 

549 Fellow-feeling, A— 228 

'* A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind." XI 4* 

Garrick, Prologue on Leaving tlie Stage. XI 4 6 

550 Fellowship— II47 

" We — are we not formed, as notes of music are, Sym- 

For one another, though dissimilar? pathy, 

Such difference without discord, as can make ," en 

Those sweetest sounds, in which all spirits shake 
As trembling leaves in a continuous air." 

Shelley, Epipsychidion. 

551 First-born, The— 

" Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth." 

Byron, Don Juan. 

552 Fishing— 

" Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, 59 
weeles, baits, angling, or otherwise, and yields all but as 
much pleasure to some men, as dogs or hawks." 

Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. 

553 Fish=Iike Smell, A— 

" A very ancient and fish-like smell." 

Shakespeare, The Tempest. 

554 Flattery— 

" The coin that is most current among mankind is flat- Praise 
tery; the only benefit of which is, that by hearing what we 
are not we may be instructed what we ought to be." 

Swift. 

555 Flattery — 

" He who speaks for any length of time in the presence 299 
of others without flattering his hearers, awakens their 1617 
displeasure." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

556 Flattery— 

" Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, 
And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame." 

Goldsmith, Retaliation. 
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557 Flattery— a i so 

"'Tis an old maxim in the schools, 
That flattery's the food of fools ; 
Yet now and then your men of wit 
Will condescend to take a bit." 

Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa* 

558 Flattery, Love of — 

" Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean 
opinion they have of themselves ; in women, from the 
contrary." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

559 Folly— 

" And take my word for this, reader, and say a fool 539 
told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram 
of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter 
in his composition." — Lamb, Essays ofElia, 

560 Folly— 

" For 'tis with him a certain rule, 
That folly's proved when he calls * Fool ! ' " 

Churchill, The Ghost 

561 Folly— 

" Mingle a little folly with your wisdom ; a little non- 
sense now and then is pleasant." — Horace, Carmina. 

562 Folly of a Clever Man, The— 

" If a clever man commits a folly, it is no small one." 7°5 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

563 Fool, A— 

" Answer a fool according to his folly." 

Book of Proverbs* 

564 Fool, A— 

" A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire 
him."— BoiLEAU, Art of Poetry. 

565 Fool, A— 

"A fool uttereth all his mind ; but a wise man keepeth 1536 
it in till afterwards." — Book of Proverbs. 

566 Fool, A— 

" No creature smarts so little as a fool." 

Pope, Epistle to Arbuthnot 

567 Fool, A— 

"A fool must now and then be right — by chance." 

Cowper, Conversation, 
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568 Fool, A— also 

" Let them read a hundred chapters of wisdom to a fool, 
and they will all seem but a jest to him." 

Sadi, Gulistan. 

569 Fool, A— 

" Speak not in the ears of a fool ; for he will despise the 
wisdom of thy words." — Book of Proverbs. 

570 Fool, A — 

11 How ill white hairs become a fool." 32 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. 583,1249 

571 Fool, A Learned— 

" A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool." 474,945 

MOLIERE. 1419 

572 Fools — 

" Of the whole rabble of thieves the fools are the worst; 
for they rob you of both time and peace of mind." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

573 Fools — 

" Fools are the game which knaves pursue." 

Gay, Fables. 

574 Fools— 

" There be fools alive, I wis." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

575 Fools— 

" Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism* 

576 Fools— 

" Though all the world is full of fools, there is none that 
thinks himself one, or even suspects the fact." 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 

577 Fools — 

" And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools." 

POPE, Essay on Criticism. 

578 Fools— 

" I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that 
he is not a knave as well."— Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

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579 Fools— also 

" Were I to be angry at men being- fools, I could here 
find ample room for declamation ; but, alas ! I have been 
a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for 
being something so natural to every child of humanity?" 

Goldsmith. 

580 Fools— 

" A grave blockhead should always go about with a 
lively one — they show one another off to the best advan- 
tage." — Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

581 Fools, The Experience of— 

"The utmost that a weak head can get out of experi- Faults 
ence is an extra readiness to find out the weakness of 
other people." — Schopenhauer. 

582 Fools, Old— 

" Old fools are more foolish than young ones." 33 

La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. I249 

583 Fools, Old— 

" Old fools are babes again." x 

Shakespeare, King Lear. 

584 Fools, The Best— 

" Who are a little wise the best fools be." 945 

Donne, The Triple Fool. 

585 Fools in Love— 

" It is all one in Venus' Wanton school, <&^ 

Who highest sits, the wise man or the fool — 
Fools in love's college 
Have far more knowledge 
To read a woman over, 
Than a neat-prating lover, 
Nay 'tis confest 
That fools please women best." 

Lyly, Mother Bombo. 

586 Forbearance — 

" There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a 
virtue." — Burke, The Present State of the Nation. 

587 Force— 

" Who overcomes 451 

By force, hath overcome but half his foe." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

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588 Forgiveness — also 

"Forgive! Charity, 

How many will say * forgive,' and find Mercy, 

A sort of absolution in the sound, |? n ; 

To hate a little longer ! " 

Tennyson, Sea-Dreams, 

589 Forgiveness— 

" He who forgives readily only invites offence." 

CORNEILLE, Cinna. 

590 Forgiveness — 

" When thou forgivest — the man who has pierced thy 1459 
heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm that 
perforates the shell of the mussel, which straightway closes 
the wound with a pearl." 

Richter, De Quincey's Analects. 

591 Forgiveness— 

" Forgive others often, yourself never." 221 

Syrus, Maxims. 

592 Forgiveness— 

" To err is human, to forgive divine." 848 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

593 Forgiveness— 

" Forgiveness to the injured does belong." 742 

Dryden, Conquest of Granada. 

594 Forgotten— 

"Forgotten! O terrible word! That a soul should Memory 
perish among souls ! Had not he whom God created for 
life the right to live at least in the mind ? What mortal 
shall dare inflict, even on the most guilty, this worst of deaths 
— to be forgotten? " — Michelet, French Revolution, 

595 Forgotten— 

" When the lamp is shatter'd, Memory 

The light in the dust lies dead — 
When the cloud is scatter'd, 

The rainbow's glory is shed. 
When the lute is broken, 

Sweet tones are remember'd not ; 
W T hen the lips have spoken, 

Loved accents are soon forgot." 

Shelley, When the Lamp is Shattered, 
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596 Forgotten— also 

" I give the fight up : let there be an end, 
A privacy, an obscure nook for me. 
I want to be forgotten even by God." 

Browning, Paracelsus. 

597 Forlorn— 

" Forlorn, my love, no comfort near, 4 

Far, far from thee, I wander here ; 108 

Far, far from thee — the fate severe 
At which I must repine, love." 

Burns, Forlorn, my Love, no Comfort Near. 

598 Forms, Ignorance of — 

" Ignorance of forms cannot properly be styled ill 313 
manners, because forms are subject to frequent changes, 1079 
and consequently not being founded upon reason, are 
beneath a wise man's regard." 

Swift, Treatise on Good Manners. 

599 Fortitude— 

" The ass's fortitude doth tire us all ; 365 

It must be active valour, must redeem 160-2 

Our loss, or none." — Ben Jonson, Sejanus. 

600 Fortune— 

" If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe 
in the story ; if too large it trips him up, if too small it 
pinches him." — Horace, Epistles* 

601 Fortune— 

" Whatever fate befalls you, do not give way to great 497 
rejoicings or great lamentation ; partly because all things 
are full of change, and your fortune may turn at any 
moment ; partly because men are so apt to be deceived in 
their judgment as to what is good or bad for them." 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

602 Fortune— 

"When fortune means to men most good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye." 

Shakespeare, King John. 

603 Fortune— 

" Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor Gloiv 
the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities 969 
in a common grave." — Gibbon, Decline and Fall. 
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604 Fortune— also 

" The power of fortune is confessed only by the miser- Success 
able ; for the happy impute all their success to prudence 531 
and merit." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

605 Fortune— 

"Whatsoever the goods of fortune are, a man must 393 
have a proper sense to favour them. It is the enjoying, 736 
and not the possessing of them, that makes us happy." 1326 

Montaigne, Essays, 17Z7 

606 Fortune— 

" Fortune displays our virtues and our vices, as light 247 
makes all objects apparent." 540 

La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. 

607 Fortune— 

" O Fortune ! what a jade you are, to distribute your 1048 
favours at haphazard as you do." — Le Sage, Gil Bias. 

608 Fortune— 

" Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own 
hands." — Bacon, Essays. 

609 Fortune— 

" Alas ! the joys that fortune brings, Life, 

Are trifling and decay ; Glory, 

And those who prize the paltry things, Fame, 

More trifling still than they." etc ' 

Goldsmith, The Hermit. 

610 Fortune— 

" If the best men do not draw the great prizes in life 
we know it has been so settled by the Ordainer of the 
lottery." — Thackeray, Pendennis. 

611 Fortune— 

" In the moment of passion, fortune may be despised ; 
but it ever produces a lasting repentance." 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. 

612 Fortune— 

" Let Fortune come under what haggard form she may, 
they hug her in their arms, and swear she is a beauty. 

Le Sage, Gil Bias. 

613 Fortune— 

" Fortune is not content to do a man but one ill turn." 1603 

Bacon, Ornamenta Rationalia. 

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614 Fortune— also 

" A man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched." 

Shakespeare, Alts Well that Ends Well, 

615 Fortune, Unaffected by— 

"for thou hast been 499 

As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing 1 ; 
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards 
Has ta'en with equal thanks ; and blest are those 
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled 
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger 
To sound what stop she please." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

616 Freedom— 

" Freedom is only in the land of dreams." 

Schiller, Beginning of the New Century* 

617 Freedom— 

"True freedom is, where no restraint is known 
That scripture, justice, and good sense disown, 
Where only vice and injury are tied, 
And all from shore to shore is free beside." 

Cowper, Expostulation. 

618 Frenchmen— 

" They look woundily like Frenchmen." 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. 

619 Friend, A— 

" There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." 

Book of Proverbs. 
§20 Friend, A— 

" I am not of that feather to shake off Sym- 

My friend when he must need me." pathy 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens. 

621 Friend, A — 

" Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend." 

Pope, Essay on Man. 

622 Friend, A — 

"and my heart 
Felt something like desertion when I look'd 
Around me, and the well-known voice of friend 
Was absent, and the cordial look was there 
No more to smile on me." — Lamb, To Charles Lloyd. 

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623 Friend for a Jest, Losing a— also 

" He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a 287 
beggar by the bargain. Yet some think their conceits, 
like mustard, not good except they bite." 

Fuller, Holy and Prof ane States* 

624 Friend, The Hollow-hearted— 

" As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal 
is shown ; so the hollow-hearted friend is known by 
adversity." — Metastasio. 

625 Friend, The Candid— 

4 'Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend." 

Canning, Speeches. 

626 Friends— 

" Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends." Sym- 

Plutarch. P ath y 

627 Friends— I324 

" The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel." 

Shakespeare, Ha?nlet. 

628 Friends— 

" Friends so near my bosom ever, 
Ye hae rendered moments dear ; 
But alas ! when forced to sever, 
Then the stroke, oh, how severe ! " 

Burns, Farewell to Ayrshire* 

629 Friends— 

" He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, 831 

For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them 
back. " — Goldsmith, Retaliation. 

630 Friends— 

" On the choice of friends 
Our good or evil name depends." 

Gay, Fables. 

631 Friends — 

" I hope I do not break the fifth commandment, if I 
conceive I may love my friend before the nearest of my 
blood, even those to whom I owe the principles of life. I 
never yet cast a true affection on a woman ; but I have 
loved my friend as I do virtue, my soul, my God." 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

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632 Friends— also 

" If a man urge me to tell wherefore I love him, I feel 89 
it cannot be expressed but by answering-, because it was 838 
he, because it was myself." — Montaigne, Essays. 

633 Friendship— 

" True friendship has, in short, a grace 
More than terrestrial in its face, 

That proves it heaven descended : 
Man's love of woman not so pure, 
Nor when sincerest, so secure 
To last till life is ended." 

COWPER, On Friendship. 

634 Friendship— 

" The only way to have a friend is to be one." 

Emerson, Essays. 

635 Friendship — 

" Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, 
The noble mind's delight and pride, 
To men and angels only given, 
To all the lower world denied." 

Johnson, Friendship. 

636 Friendship — 

" And what is friendship but a name, 
A charm that lulls to sleep, 
A shade that follows wealth or fame, 
But leaves the wretch to weep ? " 

Goldsmith, The Hermit. 

637 Friendship— 

" There is flattery in friendship." 

Shakespeare, Henry V. 

638 Friendship— 

" Who friendship with a knave hath made 
Is judged a partner in the trade." — Gay, Fables. 

639 Friendship— 

" A generous friendship no cold medium knows." 

Pope, Iliad of Homer. 

640 Friendship and Love— 

" Friendship is a disinterested commerce between 
equals ; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and 
slaves." — Goldsmith, The Good-A r a£ured Alan. 
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641 Friendship and Love— also 

" Though by Friendship we oft are deceived, Love 

And find Love's sunshine soon o'ercast, 
Yet Friendship will still be believed, 
And Love trusted on to the last." 

Moore, Though 'tis all but a Dream. 

642 Fury— 

" Beware the fury of a patient man." 

Dryden, Absalom and AchitopheL 

643 Future, The— 

" Farewell, a long farewell to the past ! The dawn of 
the future is announced to such as can read its signs, and 
we owe ourselves wholly to it." 

Mazzini, Byron and Goethe* 

644 Future, The— 

" For, I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, 1396 
Saw the vision of the world, and the wonders that should 1690 
be." — Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

645 Futurity— 

" I must confess I take a particular delight in these Here- 
prospects of futurity, whether grounded upon the probable after, 
suggestions of a fine imagination, or the more severe etc - 
conclusions of philosophy ; as a man loves to hear all the 353 
discoveries or conjectures relating to a foreign country 
which he is at some time to inhabit." 

Addison, The Tatler. 

646 Gaiety— 

" People of the greatest gaiety of manners are often 687 
the dullest company imaginable. Nothing is so dreary as 
the serious conversation or writing of a professed wag." 

Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

647 Gait— 

" Hath not my gait in it the measure of the court?" 
Shakespeare, Winter's Tale. 

648 Gallantry— 

" I shall be ever disposed to rank it among the salutary 242 
fictions of life, when in polite circles I shall see the same 3^ 
attentions paid to age as to youth, to homely features as 
to handsome, to coarse complexions as to clear, — to the 
woman, as she is a woman, not as she is a beauty, a for- 
tune, or a title." — Lamb, Essays ofElia. 
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649 General Ideas and Conceit— also 

" General ideas and great conceit are always in a fair 
way to cause terrible mischief." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

650 Generosity— 

4 * Generosity will win favour for any one, especially when 689 
it is accompanied by humility." 1182 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

651 Genius— 

"The mind of genius is among other minds what the Great 
carbuncle is among precious stones ; it sends forth light Men, 
of its own, while the others reflect only that which they t n fe l * 
have received." — Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. etc. ' 

652 Genius — 

" Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, 2 

But genius must be born, and never can be taught." 

Dryden, Commendatory Verses. 

653 Genius— 

" Genius is an immense capacity for taking pains." 

Carlyle. 

654 Genius— 

"There is no great genius without a tincture of madness." 
Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi. 

655 Genius - 

" So, then, my confounded genius has been all this time 
only leading me up to the garret, in order to fling me out 
of the window." — Goldsmith, The Good- Natured Man. 

656 Genius — * 

"Genius stands to mere learning as the words to the 819 
music in a song. A man of learning is a man who has 944 
learned a great deal ; a man of genius, one from whom 
we learn something which the genius has learned from 
nobody." — Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

657 Genius and Madness— 

" Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide." 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel. 

658 Genius, A Man of— 

" A man of genius is not a machine." 

Hazlitt, On Actors and Acting. 
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659 Genius, Talent and— als9 

" Talent is that which is in a man's power ; genius is 
that in whose power a man is." 

Lowell, Rousseau and the Senti?nentalists. 

660 Genius and Talent— 

" Genius must have talent as its complement and imple- 821 
ment, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. 
In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act 
through a corresponding energy of the lower." 

Coleridge, Table Talk. 

661 Genius, A Work of— 

" The influence of an action, be it never so noble, can 140 
last but a short time ; but a work of genius is a living 1003 
influence beneficial and ennobling throughout the ages." 
Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

66a Genius, The Necessary Functions of— 

" The first and last thing that is demanded of genius is Truth 
love of truth." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

663 Genius, To Know a— 

" When a true genius appears in the world, you may know 1306 
him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy 1424 
against him." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 1479 

664 Gentleman, The Name of— 

" The grand old name of gentleman." 

Tennyson, In Memoriam. 

665 Gentleness— 

" Let gentleness my strong enforcement be." 

Shakespeare, As You Like It. 

666 Gift, A— 

" Accept the gift a friend sincere 
Wad on thy worth be pressin'." — Burns. 

667 Gifts— 

" for to the noble mind 
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

668 Giving— 

" It is more blessed to give than to receive." Charity 

Acts of the Apostles. 
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669 Glance, A — 

" There is a power in the direct glance of a sincere and 
loving" human soul, which will do more to dissipate prejudice 
and kindle charity than the most elaborate arguments." 
George Eliot, Janet's Repentance. 

670 Glory — 

" The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 
Await alike th* inevitable hour : — 
The paths of glory lead but to the grave." 

Gray, Elegy, 

671 Glory— 

" O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us." 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens. 

672 Glory— 

" The passion for glory is the torch of the mind." 

Latin Proverb. 

673 Glory— 

"All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades 
Like the fair flower dishevelled in the wind ; 
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream ; 
The man we celebrate must find a tomb, 
And we that worship him, ignoble graves." 

Cowper, The Task. 

674 Glory— 

" Go where glory waits thee." 

MOORE, Irish Melodies. 

675 Glutton, The- 

" He eats with his eyes, as well as his teeth." 

Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair. 

676 Gluttony — 

" Their various cares in one great point combine, 
The business of their lives — that is, to dine." 

Young, Love of Fame. 

677 God— 

"As a man is, so is his God : therefore God was so 
often an object of mockery." — Goethe, Gedichte. 



See 
also 
308 



Man, 

Death, 

etc. 

982,992 
1856, 1859 
1878 



Ambi- 
tion, 
Fame 



603 



Religion, 
Faith, 
Creeds, 
1447 



678 God- 



" Man proposeth, God disposeth." 

Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 

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679 Gold— also 

" Gold sowed the world with every ill ; Wealth, 

Gold taught the murderer's sword to kill ; ^ Io J ie y» 

Twas gold instructed coward hearts 
In treachery's more pernicious arts. 
Who can recount the mischiefs o'er ? — 
Virtue resides on earth no more." 

Gay, Fables. 

680 Gold— 

" Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold 14 
is the touchstone whereby to try men." 1399 

Fuller, Holy and Profane States. 

681 Gold— 

" Whoever sees gold lowers his head, though, like the "69 
scales of justice, he has iron-bound shoulders." 

Sadi, Gulistan. 

682 Gold— 

" Cursed be the gold that gilds the straiten'd forehead 
of the fool." — Tennyson, Locks ley Hall. 

683 Gold— 

"Saint-seducing gold." 

Shakespeare, Ro7neo and Juliet. 

684 Good, Doing— 

" Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." 

Pope, Satires and Epistles. 

685 Good, Perfect— Evil> 

" No perfect good is to be found." etc. 

Horace, Odes (Otway). 2o6 

686 Good Deed, A— 

" How far that little candle throws his beams ! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

687 Good Humour— 

" Some people are commended for a giddy kind of 645 
good humour, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness." 
Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

688 Good in Everything— 

" Books in the running brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything." 

Shakespeare, As You Like It. 

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689 Good -nature — also 

" Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper 65a 
of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and 
enjoy the happiness of others ; and, consequently, pushes 
us on to promote the latter, and prevent the former ; and 
that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of 
virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion." 

Fielding. 

690 Goodness— 

" If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it Virtue, 
should be lost to the world." — Hazlitt, Characteristics, ctc * 

691 Good -night — 

"To all, to each, a fair good-night, 
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light." 

Scott, Marmion. 

692 Goodwill and Penetration — 

" By ill-will and hatred a man's observation is limited 858 
to the surface of things, even though those qualities be 
accompanied by a keen perception. But if the latter goes 
hand in hand with goodwill and love, it is able to penetrate 
into the heart of man and the world, and may even attain 
to the supreme goal."— Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

693 Gossip, A- Talking 

11 A long-tongued babbling gossip." 1013 

Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, 1635 

694 Grammar— 

" Grammar, which knows how to control even kings." 
Moliere, Les Femmes Savantes. 

695 Gratitude— 

" Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for 
greater benefits to come." 

La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. 

696 Gratitude— 

" Gratitude is a fine virtue ; and yet it is wearisome 
when carried beyond due bounds." — Le Sage, Gil Bias, 

697 Gratitude— 

" Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation ; you do not 843 
find it among gross people." 

Johnson, Visit to the Hebrides. 
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698 Grave, The— a lso 

" Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands 
in the grave." — Bishop Hall, Epistles, 

699 Grave, The— 

"Oh, — the grave — the grave! it buries every error— 346 
covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment ! 
From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and 
tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave 
even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that 
he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth 
that lies mouldering before him ? " 

Washington Irving, Sketch-Book. 

700 Great— 

" You are too great to be by me gainsaid." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. 

701 Great, The— 

" None think the great unhappy but the great." 1306 

Young, Love of Fa??ie, 

702 Great Man, The— 

81 1 said, the Great Man was always as lightning out of Genius, 
Heaven ; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and Origin- 
then they too would flame." %*%% 2 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes, I* 

703 Great Men- II29 ' 1683 

" When Earth was younger 'mid toil and hunger, 
In hope we strove, and our hands were strong ; 
Then greatness led us, with words they fed us, 
And bade us right the earthly wrong." 

William Morris, The Voice of Toil 

704 Great Men— 

"The great men of the earth are but the marking- 
stones on the road to humanity : they are the priests of 
. its religion." — Mazzini, Writings of Thomas Carlyle. 

705 Great Men— 

" Great men too often have greater faults than little 562 
men can find room for." 

LANDOR, I?naginary Conversations, 

706 Great Men— 

" Great men are too often unknown, or, what is worse, 492, 803 
misknown." — Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, II5 6 

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707 Great Men and Sincerity— a / so 

" No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far 
from that ; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so : I 
would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on him- 
self ; he cannot help being sincere ! " 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 

708 Great Men— 

" No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own 
littleness than disbelief in great men." 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 

709 Great Men — 

" Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time." 

Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. 

710 Great Men— 

"And who, indeed, without believing himself God, could 546 
ever do anything great ? " — Michelet, French Revolution, 795 

711 Greatness— 

1 l He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must 
always have had a very low standard of it in his mind." 

Hazlitt, Essays. 

712 Greatness— 

" The greatness ^of the human soul is shown by know- 
ing how to keep within proper bounds. So far from 
greatness consisting in going beyond its limits, it really 
consists in keeping within them." — Pascal, Thoughts. 

713 Greatness — 

" 'Tis, alas, the poor prerogative l626 

Of greatness, to be wretched and unpitied." 

CONGREVE. 

714 Greatness— 

" Elephants are always drawn smaller than life, but a 492 
flea always larger." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

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715 Greatness— aiso 

" Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, 
Where, but among the heroes and the wise ? 
Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, 
From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; 
The whole strange purpose of their lives to find, 
Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! " 

Pope, Essay on Man. 

716 Greatness — 

" Those people who are always improving, never become 
great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is 
steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once 
by natural boldness and vigour, and not by patient, wary 
steps. " — H AZLITT, Characteristics, 

717 Greatness in Decline— 

"A decrepit camel can still carry the burdens of a 
number of asses." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

718 Greece— 

" But Greece and her foundations are 
Built below the tide of war, 
Based on the crystalline sea 
Of thought and its eternity ; 
Her citizens, imperial spirits, 
Rule the present from the past, 
On all this world of men 
Their seal is set." — Shelley, Hellas, 

719 Grief— 

" True grief hath ever something holy in it ; and when Sorrow 
it visiteth a wise man, and a brave, is most holy." 599 

LANDOR, Imaginary Conversations, 

720 Grief— 

" I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless ; 263 

That only men incredulous of despair, 34 5 

Half-taught in anguish through the midnight air 365 

Beat upwards to God's throne in loud access 
Of shrieking and reproach." 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets, 

721 Grief— 

" Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to 
inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits 
more restless." — Macaulay, Essays. 

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722 Grief— a / so 

" That grief is light which can take counsel." 345 

Seneca, Medea. 

723 Grief— 

" In all the silent manliness of grief." 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village. 

724 Growling— 

" Snappish and captious, ever prowling ig4 

For something to excite thy growling ; 875 

He who can bear thee must be one 
Gentle to beasts as Waterton.'" 

Landor, Miscellaneous Poems. 

725 Habit — Conren- 

" Great is the power of habit."— Latin Proverb. Reason 7 ' 



726 Habit— 

" The habit of a whole life is a stronger thing than all 
the reason in the world." — Pope, Letter to Swift. 

*jvj Habits— 

" Man is a bundle of habits."— Paley. 

728 Habits— 

" Small habits well pursued, betimes 
May reach the dignity of crimes." 

Hannah More, The Bas Bleu. 

729 Habits— 

" Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive 
To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive." 

Cowper, Progress of Error \ 

730 Habits — 

" All habits gather by unseen degrees, 
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas." 

Dryden, Ovid's Metamorphoses. 

731 Habits — 

" Thank Heaven, I bear about with me no habits which 
I cannot lay aside as easily as my clothes " (Montesinos). 
Sou they, Colloquies on Society. 

732 Handsome — 

" For handsome is that handsome does." 

Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield. 
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733 Happiness— also 

"Ah ! Vanitas Vanitatum, Which of us is happy in this Life, 
world ? Which of us has his desire ? or, having it, is ^ c ° rld ' 
satisfied ? " — Thackeray, Vanity Fair. 

j34 Happiness— 

" Years after years Content- 

Through blood, and tears, ™ ent > 

And a thick hell of hatreds, and hopes, and fears ; °^ 

We waded and flew, 
And the islets were few 
Where the bud-blighted flowers of happiness grew ! " 
Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, 

735 Happiness— 

" The happiest man is but a wretched thing, 
That steals poor comfort from comparison." 

Young, Busiris. 

736 Happiness— 

" Happiness depends, as Nature shows, 132 ^ 

Less on exterior things than most suppose." 15 3 7 

Cowper, Table Talk. lS y 2 

737 Happiness— 

11 It is only the spirit of rebellion that craves for happi- 
ness in this life " (Manders). — Ibsen, Ghosts. 

738 Haste— 

" For many foolish things fall from wise men, if they 1638 
speak in haste, or be extemporal." 

Ben Jonson, Discoveries \ 

739 Haste — 

" My business asketh haste." 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew. 

740 Hate— 

" There is no sport in hate, when all the rage is on one 1410 
side." — Shelley, Queen Mab. 

741 Hatred — 

" Hatred is like fire — it makes even light rubbish 1059 
deadly." — George Eliot y Janet *s Repentance. 

742 Hatred — 

44 It is human nature to hate those whom we have 
injured." — Tacitus, Agricola. 

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743 Haughty, The— u ho 

" The haughty are always the victims of their own rash 
conclusions." — Le Sage, Gil Bias. 

744 Heart, The— 

" The heart knoweth his own bitterness." 1630 

Book of Proverbs. 

745 Heart, The— 

" He hath a heart as sound as a bell." 

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 

746 Heart on One's Sleeve, Wearing One's— 

" He who wears his heart on his sleeve will often have Reti- 
to lament aloud that daws peck at it ; he who does not, will ^ence, 
spare himself such lamenting"." l encc 

Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 

747 Hearts— 

" Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts." 

Shakespeare, Henry VIII. 

748 Hearts, Breaking— 

" Never morning wore Sorrow, 

To evening, but some heart did break." ct c 

Tennyson, In Memortam. 

749 Hearts, True— 

" When true hearts lie withered, 
And fond ones are flown, 
Oh ! who would inhabit 
This bleak world alone ? " 

Moore, Last Rose of Summer, 

750 Heaven — 

" Father, I choose ! I will not take a heaven Here- 
Haunted by shrieks of far-off misery." after > 

George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy. 352> ^ 

751 Heaven- Creeds 

" In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a hell." etc. 

Byron, Childe Harold. 1438 
75a Heaven and Hell— 

11 I sent my Soul through the Invisible, 324 

Some letter of the After-life to spell : 
And by-and-by my Soul returned to me, 
And answer'd, * I Myself am Heaven and HelL"' 
Omar KhayyAm (Edward Fitzgerald). 
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753 Heir, The Tears of an— ai so 

" The tears of an heir are laughter under a mask." 

Bacon, Ornamentd Rationalia. 

754 Hell- 

" There needeth not the hell that bigots frame Here- 

To punish those who err ; earth in itself after 

Contains at once the evil and the cure ; I452 

And all-sufficing Nature can chastise 
Those who transgress her law, — she only knows 
How justly to proportion to the fault 
The punishment it merits." — Shelley, Queen Mab, 

755 Hell- 

11 Divines and dying men may talk of hell, "*3 

But in my heart the several torments dwell." 

Marston, The Insatiate Countess* 

756 Hell— 

"The heart of man is the place the devils dwell in : I 
feel sometimes a Hell within my self ; Lucifer keeps his 
Court in my breast, Legion is revived in me. There are 
as many Hells, as Anaxagoras conceited worlds." 

Browne, Religio Medici, 

757 Hell— 

11 The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip 
To haud the wretch in order." 

Burns, Epistle to a Young Friend* 

758 Hell— 

" Long is the way 
And hard, that out of hell leads up to light." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

759 Hereafter, The— 

" The tissue of the life to be 
We weave with colours all our own, 
And in the field of destiny 
We reap as we have sown." 

Whittier, Raphael. 

760 Hereafter, The— 

u Some for the Glories of This World ; and some 
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come ; 
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, 
Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum." 

Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald) 

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Religion, 



See 

761 Hereafter, The— also 

" The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn He?l Ven ' 

No traveller returns." — Shakespeare, Hamlet. Futurity 

762 Heresy— 

" Better heresy of doctrine, than heresy of heart." Sects 

Whittier, Mary Garvin. 318, 751 

763 Heroes — 1559 

" Every hero becomes a bore at last." 

Emerson, Essays. 

764 Historian, The— 

" The true historian — Janus of the art — wanders among 
the ruins of the past, with thoughts fixed on the future. 
His works determine the links of continuity between that 
which has been and that which is to be. His is a great 
and holy mission." — Mazzini, Carlyle's French Revolution. 

765 History— 

" History is a mighty drama, enacted upon the theatre 1877 
of time, with suns for lamps, and eternity for a back- 
ground. " — Carlyle. 

766 History — 

i 'The best that history has to give us is the enthusiasm 
which it arouses." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

767 History — 

" History, which is indeed little more than the register Man 
of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." 

Gibbon, Decline and Fall. 

768 History, Personalities in— 

" If we survey the history of the past, we shall every- 
where encounter personalities with some of which we 
could agree, and with others of which we should certainly 
find ourselves quarrelling ere long." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

769 Home — 

" He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds 891 
peace in his home." — Goethe. 

770 Home — 

" Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, 
His first, best country ever is at home." 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 

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771 Home— also 

" Who has not found how sadly sweet 
The dream of home, the dream of home, 
Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, 
When far o'er sea or land we roam ? " 

MOORE, The Dream of Home. 

772 Honest Man, An— 

" An honest man is always a child." Sim; 

Martial, Epigrams, plicity 

773 Honest Man, An— 

" An honest man's the noblest work of God." 

Pope, Essay on Man, 

774 Honesty — 

" ' Honesty is the best policy ' : but he who is governed 
by that maxim is not an honest man." 

Whately, Remains. 

775 Honesty— 

" Every man has his fault, and honesty is his." 

Shakespeare, Timon of A thefts. 

776 Honesty— 

" No legacy is so rich as honesty." 

Shakespeare, Alls Well That Ends Well. 

777 Honour — 

" Force is of brutes, but honour is of man." 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite. 

778 Honour — 

" Life is ended where our honour ends." I45 7 

Goldsmith, A Prologue. 

779 Honour— 

11 Honour, that praise which real merit gains, - iy 

Or e'en imaginary worth obtains." I4 ^ 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 

780 Honour— 

"A prophet is not without honour, save in his own 
country and in his own house." — Gospel of Luke. 

781 Hope— 

" What a delicate gypsy is hope." 

Le Sage, Gil Bias. 

782 Hope — 

" Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; 
Man never is, but always to be, blest." 

Pope, Essay on Man. 
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783 Hope— also 

11 Hope has birth no more on earth 
Morn or even ; 
Hope dead lives nevermore, 
No, not in heaven." 

Christina Rossetti, Dead Hope* 



784 Hope— 



" Hope is the child of penitence." 

Sheridan, The Rivals. 



785 Hope— 

" Have Hope. Though clouds environ now, Misery, 

And gladness hides her face in scorn, Sorrow, 

Put thou the shadow from thy brow — * 

No night but hath its morn."— Schiller, Oberon* 

786 Hope— 

" Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, 
Adorns and cheers the way ; 
And still, as darker grows the night, 
Emits a brighter ray." 
Goldsmith, From the Oratorio of the Captivity. 

787 Hope Deferred— 

" Hope deferred maketh the heart sick ; but when the 391 
desire cometh, it is a tree of life." — Book of Proverbs. 

788 Hope, Worldly— 

" The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon, Life, 

Turns Ashes — or it prospers ; and anon World 

Like snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, etc. ' 

Lighting a little hour or two — is gone." 

Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald). 

789 Host— 

" Ourself will mingle with society, 
And play the humble host." 

Shakespeare, Macbeth. 

790 House— 

" He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his 
place know him any more." — Book of Job. 
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791 Human Nature— also 

" Poor human nature ! Is not a man's walking, in truth, Life, 
always that : • a succession of falls ' ? Man can do no Ma "> 
other. In this wild element of a Life, he has to struggle etc * 
onward ; now fallen, deep-abased ; and ever, with tears, 
repentance, with bleeding heart, he has to rise again, 
struggle again still onwards." 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes, 

792 Humanity — 

"The still, sad music of humanity." 

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, 

793 Humanity— 

" Humanity is one." — Dante, Convito, 

794 Humility— 

" Seeing, O brother ! that we are ultimately to become Modesty 
dust, be humble as the dust, before thou moulderest into 
dust. " — SADI, Gulistan, 

'795 Humility— 

11 Humility hath depressed many a genius to a hermit, 271 
but never raised one to fame." — Srenstone. 710 

/§6 Humility, Proud in— 

" They are proud in humility ; proud in that they are 1165 
not proud." — Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1392 

797 Humour, The Sense of— 

" Nothing serves better to illustrate a man's character 933 
than the things which he finds ridiculous." 1480 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

798 Humour and Wit— 

" Men of humour are always in some degree men of 
genius ; wits are truly so, although a man of genius may, 
amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare." 

Coleridge, Table-Talk, 

799 Humorous, The 

" There is nothing commonplace which could not be 
made to appear humorous if quaintly expressed." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

800 Hypocrisy — 

"'Tis too much proved — that with devotion's visage 1321 
And pious action we do sugar o'er 1443 

The devil himself." — Shakespeare, Hamlet, 

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801 Hypocrisy— a / s , 

" A bad man is worst when he pretends to be a saint." 
Bacon, Omamenta Rationalia. 

802 Hypocrisy — 

" Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue." 
La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. 

803 Ideas, Great— 

" Every great idea which is ushered into the world as a Public, 
gospel, becomes an offence to the immovable and pedantic etc - 
multitude, and a folly to those who possess much learning 8l2 
but no depth." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. Il8x 

804 Ideas, New— 

"Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and Origim. 
when it begins to be realized, it is hardly to be distinguished allt y 
from fantasy and fantastery." I7 ° x 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

805 Idleness— 

" No one is idle, who can do any thing." 1849 

Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

806 Idler, An — 

" An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; 993 

As useless if it goes as when it stands." 

Cowper, Retirement. 

807 If— 

" Your If is the only peacemaker ; much virtue in If." 
Shakespeare, As You Like It. 

808 Ignorance— 

" Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when Know- 
it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm." ledge 

George Eliot, Felix Holt. 

809 Ignorance— 

" Ignorance is not innocence, but sin." 1006 

Browning, The Inn Album. 1423 

810 Ignorance — 

" I cannot contemn a man for ignorance, but behold 
him with as much pity as I do Lazarus. It is no greater 
charity to clothe his body, than apparel the nakedness of 
his soul." — Browne, Religio Medici. 
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8u Ignorance — also 

" From ignorance our comfort flows ; 910 

The only wretched are the wise." 9" 

Prior, To Montague, 

812 Ignorance — 

" It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of 803 
ignorance as to whip the fog." 

George Eliot, Middlemarck, 

813 Ignorance — 

" Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." x 2 2 3 

Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, I ?87 

814 Ignorance — 

" Gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who 
knows nothing thinks that he can teach others what he 
has himself just been learning." 

LA Bruyere, Characters, 
615 Ignorance— 

" ' Ignorance,' says Ajax, * is a painless evil'; so, I 
should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go 
along with it." — George Eliot, Mr, GilfiVs Love Story, 

816 Ignorance in Action— 

" There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in 
action." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

817 Ignorance, The— 

" Ignorant persons raise questions which have been 7°* 
answered by the wise thousands of years ago." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

818 Ills, Little— 

" The little ills of life are the hardest to bear." 973 

Thackeray. ioo 5 

819 Imagination— 

" Is there so small a range 949 

In the present strength of manhood, that the high *336 
Imagination cannot freely fly 
As she was wont of old ? " 

Keats, Sleep and Poetry, 

820 Imagination— 

"This is the very coinage of your brain." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, 

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821 Imagination Without Taste— also 

" The imagination is regulated by art alone, and especi- 660 
ally by poetry. There is nothing so horrible as imagin- 1640 
ation devoid of taste." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

822 Imitators— 

" Imitators are a servile race." 

La Fontaine, Clymene, 

823 Imitators— 

" But I shall be told, there are imitators — I know it only Author- 
too well ; but what lasting influence can be exerted on l *V> Con- 
social life by those who have no real life of their own ? public 7 ' 
They will but flutter in the void, so long as void there be. Multi-' 
On the day when the living shall arise to take the place of tude > etc « 
the dead, they will vanish like ghosts at cock-crow." 2 97> 8 34 

Mazzini, Byron and Goethe, I262 

824 Immortality — 

" Life's lying likeness — in the dreary shroud of the cold Death, 
sepulchre — Here- 

Embalmed by hope — time's mummy — which the proud Heaven 
Delirium, drivelling through thy reason's cloud, Futur- 

Calls ' immortality ' ! " — Schiller, Resignation, ' lt Y» etc - 

825 Impartiality — 

" I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial." 900 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 1385 

826 Impartiality — 

" Impartiality neither excludes earnestness of conviction, 
nor choice between two adverse camps." 

Mazzini, Essays. 

827 Impudence— 

" Folly often goes beyond her bounds ; but impudence 
knows none." — Ben Jonson, Discoveries, 

82S Impudence — 

" Their impudence confounds me." 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, 
829 Impudence — 

' 'This may be modern modesty, but I never saw any- 
thing look so like old-fashioned impudence." 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. 
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830 Inactivity— also 

" How dull it is to pause, to make an end, Work, 

To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! etc * 

As tho' to breathe were life." — Tennyson, Ulysses. ^5 

31 Inconstancy— 

" Nothing- — that is not a real crime — makes a man 629 
appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world 1047 
as inconstancy." — Addison, Essays. 

B32 Independence — 

" He who can see truly in the midst of general infatua- Reason, 
tion is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all Solitude, 
the clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong - . He e c * 
alone knows the right time ; but what use is that to him ? ° 23 
for every one goes by the clocks which speak false, not 2 
even excepting those who know that his watch is the only l68 3 
one that is right," — Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, 

133 Independence — 

" That independence Britons prize too high, 
Keeps man from man, and breaks the social tie." 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 
34 Independence— 

" It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; 
it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great 
man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with per- 
fect sweetness the independence of solitude." 

Emerson, Self- Reliance. 

«35 Independence — 

" The glorious privilege 
Of being independent." 

Burns, Epistle to a Young Friend. 
836 Individual, The— 

Cl Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on 1579 
the shore, 
And the individual withers, and the world is more and 
more." — Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

B37 Individuality— 

" Individuality is everywhere to be guarded and hon- 
oured as the root of all good." — Richter, Titan. 
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838 Individuality— also 

" When two do the same thing-, it is not the same thing- 632 
after all." — Publius Syrus, Maxims. 1711 

839 Individuality— 

" The worst of what is called good society is not only 
that it offers us the companionship of people who are 
unable to win either our praise or our affection, but that it 
does not allow of our being that which we naturally are ; 
it compels us, for the sake of harmony, to shrivel up, or 
even alter our shape altogether." 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, 

840 Inferiority — 

" Inferiority among strangers is easy ; but among those l62a 
that once were equals, insupportable." 

Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man. 

841 Influence — 

" I am a part of all that I have met." 213 

Tennyson, Ulysses. 

842 Influence, Intellectual— 

" Kings have not so serious an account to render as they 
who exercise an intellectual influence over the minds of 
men." — Southey, Colloquies on Society. 

843 Ingratitude— 

" Ingratitude is always a form of weakness I have 697 
never known a man of real ability to be ungrateful." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims 

844 Ingratitude— 

11 Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 
As man's ingratitude." 

Shakespeare, As You Like It. 

845 Inhumanity— 

" Man's inhumanity to man Cruelty 

Makes countless thousands mourn." x 5 2 3 

Burns, Man Was Made to Mourn. 

846 Inhumanity— 

' ' Nature (I fear me) hath of her own self added unto 
man a certain instinct to inhumanity." 

Montaigne, Essays. 
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847 Injury— a > so 

u Those have most power to hurt us that we love ; 
We lay our sleeping" lives within their arms ! " 

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy. 

848 Injury— 

" Let any man who has been unfair or injurious to me, Forgive- 
show that he has been so to me only, and I offer him my ness 
hand at once, with more than mere forgiveness." 

Landor, Imaginary Conversations. 

849 Ink, A drop of— 

" A drop of ink may make a million think." Books, 

Byron, Don Juan. etc - 

850 Inn— 1303 

11 Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? " 

Shakespeare, i Henry IV. 

851 Inn— 

" Now spurs the lated traveller apace 
To gain the timely inn." 

Shakespeare, Macbeth. 

852 Innovations— 

" As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen : New 
so are all innovations, which are the births of time." 

Bacon, Essays. 

853 Inquisitiveness— 

" The man who is inquisitive into the secrets of your Secret 
affairs, with which he has no concern, should be an object 
of your caution. Men no more desire another's secrets to 
conceal them, than they would another's purse for the 
pleasure only of carrying it." — Fielding. 

854 Insight— 

* To know thyself— -in others self discern ; acter" 

Would' st thou know others ? read thyself — and learn ! " g21 Q22 

Schiller, The Key. I52 q ' 

855 Insight— 

" In proportion to the number of people we see, we 1589 
forget that we know less of mankind." 

Hazlitt, Characteristics. 
B56 Insight— 

" And you will always be the prey or the plaything of 1711 
the devils and fools in this world, if you expect to see 
them going about with horns or jangling their bells." 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

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857 Insight— also 

" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experi- 918 
ence." — Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast Table. 

858 Insight— 

" Good men can more easily see through bad men than 692 
the latter can the former." — Richter, Hesperus. 

859 Insignificance— 

" Dirt glitters when the sun is shining on it." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

860 Insignificant, The— 

" It is easier to bear with people who are unpleasant 
than with those who are insignificant." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

861 Insolence— 

" The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their 5, 1483 
ignorance. They treat everything with contempt, which 
they do not understand." — Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

862 Insult— 

" It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it." 

Seneca, De Ira. 

863 Intellect— 

" For who would lose, Thought, 

Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Mind, 

Those thoughts that wander through eternity, I434 

To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost l6o 9 
In the wide womb of uncreated night ? " 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

864 Intellect— 

"The amount of intellect necessary to please us, is a 
most accurate measure of the amount of intellect we have 
ourselves." — Helvetius, De V Esprit. 

865 Intellect— 

"It is good to see, by a new example, that neither 112a 
ignorant levity nor materialist indifference can long sup- 
press the divine rights of intellect." 

Mazzini, Writings of Thomas Cartyk. 
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866 intellect, The Man of— also 

" The man of intellect at the top of affairs ; this is the 78 
aim of all constitutions and revolutions, if they have any 
aim. For the man of true intellect, as I assert and believe 
always, is the noble-hearted man withal, the true, just, 
humane and valiant man. Get him for governor, all is 
got ; fail to get him, though you had Constitutions plen- 
tiful as blackberries, and a Parliament in every village, 
there is nothing yet got." — Carlyle, Lectu?-es on Heroes, 

867 Intellectual Superiority — 

" So-called good soriety recognizes every kind of claim but Society 
that of intellect, which is a contraband article ; and people 2gg 
are expected to exhibit an unlimited amount of patience 3°2 
towards every form of folly and stupidity, perversity and 157 8 
dulness ; whilst personal merit has to beg pardon, as it 
were, for being present, or else conceal itself altogether. 
Intellectual superiority offends by its very existence, 
without any desire to do so." 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims, 

868 Intentions, Good — 

" Hell is paved with good intentions." 

Johnson {Boswells Life). 

(.*. But in slightly differing forms the proverb is of 
considerable antiquity. It occurs as a common Italian 
saying from early times.) 

869 Intolerance — 



Char- 
acter, 



" If men knew themselves they could not be intolerant Ju 
to others." — Helps. Friends in Council, " ien r 

' Faults, 

870 Intolerance— elc 

" No human quality is more intolerable and less toler- 
ated than intolerance." — Leopardi, Thoughts, 

871 Intrigue — 

" Once intrigue, and your whole life is endangered; 
you never know when the evil may fall upon you : and the 
woe of whole families, and the ruin of innocent people 
perfectly dear to you, may be caused by a moment of 
your folly." — Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, 

872 Iron, A Rod of— 

"And he shall rule them with a rod of iron/' 

Book of Revelation. 

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873 Irresolution— a / s0 

" Weak and irresolute is man ; Man, 

The purpose of to-day, Life, 

Woven with pain into his plan, ctc * 

To-morrow rends away." 

COWPER, Human Frailty. 

874 Irretrievable, The— - 

"Irene: We see the irretrievable only when— (<£razAy 98S 
short off). 

Rubek [looks inquiringly at her) : When ? 
Irene : When we dead awaken ! " 

Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken. 

875 Irritable Man, The— 

" An irritable man lies like a hedgehog- rolled up the ig4 
wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles." 724 

Hood. 

876 Iteration— 

"Thou hast damnable iteration." 

Shakespeare, i Henry IV. 

877 Iteration— 

" What needs this iteration ? "—Shakespeare, Othello. 

878 Jealousy— 

" Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, Envy- 

That inly gnaws the secret heart. " 1019 

Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 

879 Jealousy— 

" How many fond fools serve mad jealousy ? " 

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors. 

880 Jealousy— 

" Jealousy is the greatest of misfortunes, and the least 
pitied by those who cause it." 

La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. 

881 Jealousy — 

" A jealousy so strong 
That judgment cannot cure.' 

Shakespeare, Othello. 

882 Jealousy— 

" Jealousy is cruel as the grave,"— Song of Solomon. 
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883 Jealousy— also 

" O, how hast thou with jealousy infected 
The sweetness of affiance ! " 

Shakespeare, Henry V. 

884 Jealousy— 

" But beshrew my jealousy." — Shakespeare, Hamlet, 

885 Journalism — 

" Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ru'er 1228 
of the world, being" a persuader of it ; though self-elected, 
yet sanctioned by the sale of his numbers ? " 

Carlyle, French Revolution* 

886 Joy— 

" J°y> which riseth up Happi- 

As from the earth, clothing with gulden clouds ness 

The desert of our life." 290 

Shelley, Prometheus Unbound. 
867 Joy— 

" How shall I laugh and sing and dance ? Poor 

My very heart recoils, 
While here to give my mirth a chance, 
A hungry brother toils." 

Arthur Hugh Clough, Dipsychm 

888 Joy— 

" There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes 1599 
away." — Byron, There s Not a Joy, 

889 Joy— 

" Let joy be unconfined." — Byron, Childe Harold, 

890 Joy, Coming— 

" The night is past, — joy cometh with the morrow.'* 

Lytton, Lady of Lyons, 

891 Joy, Domestic— 

" With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Home 

Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. " 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 

892 Judgment — 

" Let all the world be peace and love — Charity, 

Cancel thy debt— book with thy brother ; Mercy, 

For God shall judge of us above, ness^etc 

As we shall judge each other ! " 

Schiller, Hymn to foy, 
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893 Judgment— a / so 

" There are some people one must wish to judge one 
truly. Not to wish it would be mere hardness." 

George Eliot, Felix Holt. 

894 Judgment — 

" I believe many are saved, who to man seem repro- Char- 
bated ; and many are reprobated, who, in the opinion and acter > 
sentence of man, stand elected." e g 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

895 Judgment— 

" He only judges right who weighs, compares, Charity. 

And, in the sternest sentence which his voice etc - 

Pronounces, ne'er abandons charity." 

Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets. 

896 Judgment — 

" When we judge of a particular action, we must first Faults, 
consider many circumstances, and thoroughly observe the Sin . s > 
man that hath produced the same before we name and ^J.' 
censure it." — Montaigne, Essays. 26g 

897 Judgment — 

" Human judgment, like Luther's drunken peasant, when 420 
saved from falling on one side, too often topples over on 
the other." — Mazzini, Byron and Goethe. 

898 Judgment— 

"Judge not ! the workings of his brain 536 

And of his heart thou canst not see ; 1404 

What looks to thy dim eyes a stain, 1467 

In God's pure light may only be 
A scar brought from some well- won field, 
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield." 

Adelaide Procter, Judge Not 

899 Judgment, Liberty of — 

" Liberty of judgment? No iron chain, or outward Author- 
force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of a man to **¥» Con- 
believe or disbelieve : it is his own indefeasible light, that Truth 7 ' 
judgment of his; he will reig'n, and believe there, by the 2g 5 
grace of God alone ! " — Carlyle, Lee Hires on Heroes. 5 I7 

900 Judgments — 

" Tis with our judgments as our watches, none 825 

Go just alike, yet each believes his own." 1424 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

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901 Justice — also 

" Justice pleaseth few in their own house." 1712 

Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 

903 Justice, Delay of— 

" Delay of justice is injustice." 

Landor, Imaginary Conversations, 

903 Justice, The Love of— 

"The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, 
the fear of suffering injustice." 

La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 

904 Kind Heart, A— 

" A kind and gentle heart he had, S^^' 

To comfort friends and foes." pathy 

Goldsmith, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, etc 

905 Kind Hearts— 

" Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood." 

Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 

906 Kindness— 

" That best portion of a good man's life, 1005 

His little, nameless, unremembered acts 
Of kindness and of love." 

Wordsworth, Tint em Abbey, 

907 Kings— 

" Where the word of a king is, there is power : and 
who may say unto him, What doest thou ? " 

Book of Ecclesiastes, 

908 Kings— 

" Kings are like stars — they rise and set — they have 199 

The worship of the world, but no repose." 1369 

Shelley, Hellas, 

909 Knowledge — 

" There is no knowledge that is not power." Mind, 

Emerson, Essays, ^ ought ' 

910 Knowledge — 

" He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." 811 

Book of Ecclesiastes, 

911 Knowledge— 

" Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, 
It is not safe to know." 

Davenant, The fust Italian. 
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912 Knowledge— also 

" He that would make a real progress in knowledge, Truth, 
must dedicate his age as well as youth, the latter growth 
as well as firstfruits at the altar of truth." 

Berkeley, Siris. 

913 Knowledge — 

"It is only a long time after having learnt it that we 
know anything well." — Joubert, Thoughts. 

914 Knowledge— 

" Some people will never learn anything, for this 1714 
reason, because they understand everything too soon." 
Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

915 Knowledge, Desire of— 

"A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of man- 
kind." — Johnson (Boswelts Life). 

916 Knowledge, Human — 

"Human knowledge extends on all sides farther than "4 
the eye can reach ; and of that which would be gener- 1683 
ally worth knowing, no man can possess even the 
thousandth part." — Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

917 Knowledge, The History of— 

"The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which 
the voices of the various nations appear one after the 
other." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

918 Knowledge and Insight — 

" There are men who make their knowledge serve Insight 
them in the place of insight." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

919 Knowledge, The Progress of— 

" The progress of knowledge is very much retarded by 1328 
the fact that people so often devote their attention either 1656 
to things which are not w r orth knowing, or to such as are 1659 
not knowable." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

920 Knowledge of Men— Insightj 

" We do not learn to know men through their coming to Char- 
US. To find out what sort of persons they are, we must a ^ er » 
go to them." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, ^ Ql 

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§2i Knowledge of Self— also 

" The highest and most profitable lesson is the know- 854 
ledge of ourselves." — Thomas a Kempis. 1520 

922 Knowledge of Self — 

"And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know.' 

Pope, Essay on Man. 

923 LabOUr— Work 

"All labour is noble and holy."— Scott. "52 

924 Labour— 

" Let us then be up and doing, 268 

With a heart for any fate ; 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Learn to labour and to wait." 

Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. 

925 Labour— 

" And labour shall refresh itself with hope." 1854 

Shakespeare, Henry V. 

926 Labour— 

"Ah, why 993 

Should life all labour be ? " !4 33 

Tennyson, The Lotus- Eaters. 

927 Labour, Congenial — 

"The labour we delight in physics pain." 

Shakespeare, Macbeth. 

928 Ladies— 

" Talkest thou nothing but of ladies ? " 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. 

929 Lady, A— 

"And when a lady's in the case 
You know all other things give place." 

Gay, Fables. 

930 Laugh, A— 

"A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market." 

Lamb, Essays of Elia. 

931 Laughing— 

" Where the devil's the wit in not laughing when a man 
has a mind to 't ? " — Congreve, The Double- Dealer. 

932 Laughter— 

" Great and formidable among men is the power of 
laughter — no man is proof against its spell." 

Leopardi, Thoughts. 

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933 Laughter— also 

" If a man laughs always, set him down as foolish ; if 797 
never, as false." 1805 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 

934 Laughter — 

" You cannot force people to laugh ; you cannot give a 
reason why they should laugh ; they must laugh of them- 
selves, or not at all. As we laugh from a spontaneous 
impulse, we laugh the more at any restraint upon this 
impulse. We laugh at a thing merely because we ought 
not." — Hazlitt, Essays, 

935 Laughter— 

" Laughter means sympathy ; good laughter is not 'the \$q 
crackling of thorns under the pot.' " 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 

936 Laughter — 

" The most wasted of all days is that on which one has 
not laughed." — Chamfort, Maxims. 

937 Laughter— 

" Hence away, unhallowed laughter ! " 

Tennyson, The Poet's Mind. 

938 Laughter— 

" People are scandalized if one laughs at what they call 
a serious thing. Suppose I were to have my head cut off 
to-morrow, and all the world were talking of it to-day, 
yet why might I not laugh to think, what a bustle is here 
about my head." — Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects* 

939 Law, The— 

" We must not make a scarecrow of the law." 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. 

940 Laws — 

" Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law." 1358 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 

941 Laws— 

"Laws are always made by old persons and by men. 1487 
Youths and women want the exceptions, old persons the 
rules." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

942 Lawyers— 

" Lawyers I I hate lawyers." — Sheridan, The Rivals. 
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U3 Learned, The— also 

" The most learned are often the most narrow-minded 162, 474 
men." — Hazlitt, Characteristics. 571,1419 

944 Learning— 

"We see men gape after no reputation but learning - , 656 
and when they say, such a one is a learned man, they 
think they have said enough." — Montaigne, Essays. 

945 Learning— 

" Most men of learning are very superficial." 162, 474 

Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 571,1419 

946 Learning, A Little— 

"A little learning is a dangerous thing." 584 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 
C47 Learning, Scraps of— 

" Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, 
And think they grow immortal as they quote." 

Young, Love of Fame. 
048 Leave-taking— 

" Then let us take a ceremonious leave." 

Shakespeare, Richard II. 

i\49 " Levelling" in the Arts— 

"In the fine arts, as well as in literature, a levelling 819 
principle is going on, fatal, perhaps, to excellence, but 
favourable to mediocrity. Such facilities are afforded to 
imitative talent, that whatever is imitable will be imitated. 
Genius will often be suppressed by this, and when it 
exerts itself, will find it far more difficult to obtain notice 
than in former times." — Southey, Colloquies on Society. 

950 Levity— 

" There is always some levity even in excellent minds : 1480 
they have wings to rise, and also to stray." 

Joubert, Thoughts. 

951 Levity, Excess of— 

" An excess of levity is as impertinent as an excess of 
gravity." — Hazlitt, Essays. 

952 Liar, A — 

" A liar should have a good memory." 

Quintilian, Lnstitutiones Orator ice. 
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953 Liberality, The Truest— also 

"The truest liberality is appreciation." 74 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 1432 

954 Liberty— 

" The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the 
blood of tyrants." — Barere, Speeches. 

955 Liberty— 

" O Liberty ! Liberty ! how many crimes are committed 
in thy name ! " — Madame Roland (quoted by Macaulay). 

956 Liberty, Love of — 

" The love of liberty with life is given." J ree " 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite. m 

957 Lie, A— 

"A lie is a breach of promise; for whoever seriously Lying 
addresses his discourse to another, tacitly promises to 
speak the truth, because he knows the truth is expected." 

Paley, Natural Theology. 
gs8 Lie, A — 

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits 
them all." — Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. 

959 Lie, A — 104a 

" A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." 1683 

Bacon, Essays. 1688 

960 Lie, Telling a— 

" He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he 385 
undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more 
to maintain one." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

961 Lie which is Half a Truth— 

" That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of 420 
lies ; 
That a He which is all a lie may be met and fought 

with outright ; 
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to 
fight." — Tennyson, The Grandmother. 

962 Lies— 

" Particular lies may speak a general truth." 506 

George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy. 
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963 Lies, Social— Co'n- 

" Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living formity, 

truth ! "—Tennyson, Locksley Hall. T ™ th 

* 296, 997 

964 Life— I594 

" So our lives glide on : the river ends we don't know Man, 
where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more Death 
jumping ashore.'* — George Eliot, Felix Holt, 

965 Life— 

" Various the roads of life ; in one 9 s 

All terminates, one lonely way. *°73 

We go ; and ' Is he gone ? ' 
Is all our best friends say." 

Landor, Miscellaneous Poems. 

966 Life— 

" Life can little more supply 
Than just to look about us and to die." 

Pope, Essay on Man. 

967 Life— 

" That life is long, which answers life's great end." 

Young, Night Thoughts. 

968 Lif e— 

" Whether in Naishapur or Babylon, 
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, 
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, 
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one." 

Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald). 

969 Life— 

" Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill Fortune, 
are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown 5J an ,' a 
chances, incalculable as the descent of thistledown." °I 

George Eliot, Romola. 

970 Life — 

" When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and 358 
the best, but like a froward child, that must be played 
with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls 
asleep, and then the care is over." — Temple, Miscellaitea. 

971 Life— 

" Life is such a poor business that the strictest economy 734 
must be exercised in its good things." 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 
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972 Life— aho 

" Out, out, brief candle ! 733, 734 

Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, 737,1856 

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, 1869,1877 

And then is heard no more : it is a tale etc. 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifying nothing." — Shakespeare, Macbeth, 



973 Life— 

974 Life- 



975 



Life— 



976 Life— 



977 Life— 



" Life is a great bundle of little things." 8u 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast Table. 1006 

" Twist ye, twine ye ! even so 
Mingle shades of Joy and Woe, 
Hope and Fear, and Peace and Strife, 
In the thread of human life." 

Scott, Twist Ye, Twine Ye. 

" Life is a jest, and all things show it ; 
I thought so once, and now I know it." 

John Gay (written for his own epitaph). 

" O Life ! thou are a galling load, Wcwld 

Along a rough, a weary road, 
To wretches such as I." 

Burns, Despondency. 



We must be patient in our prison-house, 
And find our space in loving." 

George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy. 

978 Life — 

" Happy is every actor in the guilty drama of life, to 972, 1000 
whom the higher allusion within supplies or conceals the etc, 
external illusion ; to whom, in the tumult of his part and its 
intellectual interest, the bungling landscapes of the stage 
have the bloom and reality of nature, and whom the loud 
parting and shocking of the scenes disturb not in his 
dream." — Richter, De Quincey's Analects. 

979 Life — 

" Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, 788 

Before we too into the Dust descend ; 
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, 
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and sans End ! " 
Omar KhayyAm (Edward Fitzgerald). 
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980 Life— also 

" Thus on Life's weary sea, 
Heareth the Marinere 
Voices sweet, from far and near, 
Ever singing low and clear, 
Ever singing longingly." 

Lowell, The Syrens, 

981 Life— 

"It is a brave act of valour to contemn death ; but Death, 
where life is more terrible than death, it is then the Sorrow, 
truest valour to dare to live." — Browne, Religio Medici. ^? e ' 

982 Life— Man, 

" I sum up half mankind, Death, 

And add two-thirds of the remaining half, e * c * 

And find the total of their hopes and fears J* 70 ' jj 9 ? 

Dreams, empty dreams." — Cowper, The Garden. I : 52,I !„ 
. , A V J 1859,1878 

983 Life— 

" Where lies the land to which the ship would go ? Here- 
Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. after, 
And where the land she travels from ? Away, Jitv 11 " 
Far, far behind, is all that they can say." 3 _ 2 
Arthur Hugh Clough, Where Lies the Land? 

984 Life— 

"Wherever he be, a man need only cast a look around, ggi 
to revive the sense of human misery : there before his etc. 
eyes he can see mankind struggling and floundering in 
torment, — all for the sake of a wretched existence, 
barren and unprofitable." 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

985 Life— 

" Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, 372 

Stains the white radiance of Eternity, 
Until Death tramples it to fragments." 

Shelley, Adonais. 



986 Life— 

987 Life— 



" I count life just a stuff 
To try the soul's strength on." 

Browning, In a Balcony, 

" What is the course of life Man, 

Of mortal men on the earth ? — World/ 

Most men eddy about etc * 

Here and there — eat and drink, ^ 9X 
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"See 
Chatter and love and hate, oJso 

Gather and squander, are raised 
Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, 
Striving blindly, achieving 
Nothing" ; and then they die — 
Perish — and no one asks 
Who or what they have been, 
More than he asks what waves, 
In the moonlit solitudes mild 
Of the midmost Ocean, have swell'd, 
Foamed for a moment, and gone." 

Matthew Arnold, Rugby ChapeL 

988 Life— 

" ' It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't 874 
make twice over ; there's no real making amends in 1290 
this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong sub- 
traction by doing your addition right.' " 

George Eliot, Adam Bede. 

989 Life— 

" Beneath the sun there's nothing new : I2i j 

Men flow, men ebb, mankind flows on. 
If I am wearied of my life, 
Why so was Solomon." 

Christina G. Rossetti, The Lowest Room. 

990 Life— 

" That motley drama ! — oh, be sure 765 

It shall not be forgot ! 995 

With its Phantom chased for evermore, 1869 

By a crowd that seize it not, 1877 

Through a circle that ever returneth in 
To the self-same spot, 
And much of Madness, and more of Sin, 
And Horror the soul of the Plot." 

Poe, The Conqueror Worm. 

991 Life— 

" Woe is me ! 
Whence are we, and why are we ? of what scene 
The actors or spectators ? Great and mean 
Meet massed in death, who lends what life must borrow. 
As long as skies are blue and fields are green, 
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, 
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to 
sorrow." — Shelley, Adonais* 

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§92 Life— a i so 

" To Contemplation's sober eye Man 

Such is the race of Man : 670 

And they that creep, and they that fly 982 

Shall end where they began. 
Alike the Busy and the Gay 
But flutter thro' life's little day, 
In Fortune's varying colours chest : 
Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, 
Or chill'd by Age, their airy dance 
They leave, in dust to rest." 

Gray, Ode on the Spring. 

993 Life, The Voyage of— 

" Ah ! let us make no claim 397 

On life's incognisable sea, 926 

To too exact a steering of our way ; 1001 

Let us not fret and fear to miss our aim, 1080 

If some fair coast have lured us to make stay, 1715 
Or some friend hail'd us to keep company." 

Matthew Arnold, Human Life. 

994 Life, The Wine of— 

" That maddening wine of life, whose dregs they 393 
drain 
To deep intoxication ; and uplift, 
Like Msenads who cry loud, Evoe ! Evoe ! 
The voice which is contagion to the world." 

Shelley, Prometheus Unbound. 

995 Life, A View of— 

" And remember that after all, I'm merely a spectator 990 

in life : nothing more than a man at the play in fact." rSfig 

Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray. etc. 

996 Life Wanting Love— 

" What is life when wanting love ? Love 

Night without a morning : 
Love's the cloudless summer sun 
Nature gay adorning." 

Burns, My Lovely Nancy. 

997 Light— 

" Light is the one thing wanted for the world. Put 963 
wisdom in the head of the world, the world will fight its 1692 
battle victoriously, and be the best world man can make 
of it." — Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 
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998 Light, A Dim— aho 

" Casting a dim religious light." 

Milton, // Penseroso. 

999 Limitation — 

" The man whose insight causes him to declare himself 535 
limited, has approached the most nearly to perfection." 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1000 Limitation — 

" Limitation always makes for happiness. We are 735 
happy in proportion as our range of vision, our sphere of 978 
work, our points of contact with the world, are restricted 
and circumscribed." 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

1001 Limitation — 

" Narrow 9g3 

The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, 1080 

The life that wears, the spirit that creates 
One object, and one form, and builds thereby 
A sepulchre for its eternity." 

Shelley, Epipsychidion. 

1002 Limitations, Mental — 

"To persons of limited spheres, miles are as geographi- 1005 
cal degrees, parishes as counties, counties as provinces 1867 
and kingdoms." — Hardy, Tess of the D' Urbervilles. 

1003 Literary Man, The — 

" In the true literary man there is thus ever, acknow- Books, 
ledged or not by the world, a sacredness; he is the light of Truth 
the world ; the world's Priest ; — guarding it, like a sacred 6Sl 
Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of 
time." — Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 

1004 Literature, A Superficial Taste for — 

"The taste for literature becomes superficial, as it 149 
becomes universal, and is spread over a larger space." 

Hazlitt, Essays. 

1005 Little Things— 

" These little things are great to little men." 818, qo6 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 973 
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1006 Littleness— also 

" 'Tis a vile life that like a garden pool 809 

Lies stagnant in the round of personal loves ; IO o2 

That has no ear save for the tickling lute 
Set to small measures — deaf to all the beats 
Of that large music rolling o'er the world." 

George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy, 

1007 London— 

" London is the heart of your commercial system, but 
it is also the hot-bed of corruption. It is at once the 
centre of wealth and the sink of misery ; the seat of intel- 
lect and empire ; and yet a wilderness wherein they who 
live like wild beasts upon their fellow-creatures find prey 
and cover." — Southey, Colloquies on Society, 

1008 Loneliness — 

" They are never alone that are accompanied with noble Solitude 
thoughts." — Sidney, Arcadia, 45, 187a 

ioog Longings— 

" Human longings are perversely obstinate ; and to the 
man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use 
to offer the largest vegetable marrow." 

George Eliot, Mr. Gilfits Love Story, 

1010 Look of Intelligence, A— 

" A look of intelligence in man is what regularity of 
features is in women ; it is a style of beauty to which the 
most vain may aspire." — La Bruyere, Characters. 

ion Looking-Glass, The — 

" A well-bred instrument, and the greatest flatterer in 
the world ; it tells every woman that she is a beauty, and 
never disparages behind the back." — Fielding. 

1012 Looks, Forgotten— 

" Another misery there is in affection, that whom we 1104 
truly love like our own selves, we forget their looks, nor 
can our memory retain the idea of their faces ; and it is 
no wonder, for they are our selves, and our affection 
makes their looks our own." — BROWNE, Religio Medici. 

X013 Loquacity— 

" Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue ! " q^ 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, 
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X014 Love — also 

" All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Woman 

Whatever stirs this mortal frame, 
All are but ministers of love, 
And feed his sacred flame." 

Coleridge, Love. 

1015 Love — 

"They sin who tell us love can die." 

Southey, The Curse of Kehama. 

1016 Love— 

" For love is strong as death." — Song of Solomon. 

1017 Love— 

11 Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his 1857 
glowing hands ; 
Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. 

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the 

chords with might ; 
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music 

out of sight." — Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

xoi8 Love— 

" Love's very pain is sweet, 
But its reward is in the world divine 
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave." 

Shelley, Epipsychidion. 



xoig Love — 



Love— 



"Thus women welcomed woe, Woman, 

Disguised in name of love ; Jealousy 

A jealous hell, a painted show, 
So shall they find that prove." 

Raleigh, A Nymph's Disdain of Love. 



11 Love will conquer at the last." 

Tennyson, Sixty Years After. 



1021 Love— 

"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the 
floods drown it," — Song of Solomon. 
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io22 Love — also 

" Bring" me an axe and spade, 
Bring- me a winding-sheet ; 
When I my grave have made, 
Let winds and tempests beat ; 
Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. 
True love doth pass away ! " — Blake, Song. 

iw3 Love— 

" In peace, love tunes the shepherd's reed, 
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed ; 
In halls in gay attire is seen ; 
In hamlets dances on the green. 
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 
And men below, and saints above ; 
For love is heaven, and heaven is love." 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, 

1024 Love— 

" Love is not in our choice, but in our fate." 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, 

1025 Love— 

"Ah ! did we take for heaven above Woman 

But half such pains as we 1824 

Take day and night, for woman's love, 
What angels we should be." 

Moore, Row Gently Here, 

1026 Love — 

" Who love too much, hate in the same extreme." 

Pope, Hornet* s Odyssey, 

1027 Love— 

" There's nothing half so sweet in life 
As love's young dream." 

Moore, Love's Young Dream. 

1028 Love — 

" For love is lord of all, and is in all the same." X 826 

Dryden, Virgifs Eclogues, 

1029 Love — 

" The stream of pure and genuine love 
Derives its current from above." 

Cowper, Love Abused, 
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1030 Love — also 

11 1 hold it true whate'er befall, gg5 

I feel it when I sorrow most : 
'Tis better to have loved and lost 
Than never to have loved at all." 

Tennyson, hi Memoriam. 

1031 Love— 

" Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree. — 3°o 

Love is a present for a mighty king." 

Herbert, The Church Porch. 

1032 Love — 

" Ye powers that smile on virtuous love, 
And in such pleasure share ; 
You, who its faithful flames approve, 
With pity view the fair." 

Burns, My Dearie, if Thou Die. 

1033 Love — 

" Love sacrifices all things 
To bless the thing it loves." 

Lytton, Lady of Lyons. 

1034 Love— 5 3 5 

" Love is to lovers just what wine is to drunkards." *&V 

Le Sage, Gil Bias. 1836 

1035 Love— 

" Love conquers all things." 

Virgil, Eclogues. 

1036 Love — 

" Love has its instinct." — Balzac. 

1037 Love — 

" We canna love just where other folks 'ud have us." 

George Eliot, Adam Bede. 

1038 Love— 

II How women love Love ! " 1823 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Tabl>. 

1039 Love — 

"Come live with me, and be my love." 

Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd. 

1040 Love — 

" Beshrew me, but I do love her heartily." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 
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*\r Love— a / sd 

11 Love is too wayward to be controlled by advice." 1832 

Le Sage, Gil Bias. 

1042 Love — 

" There is a comfort in the strength of love ; 
'Twill make a thing- endurable which else 
Would break the heart." 

Wordsworth, Michael. 



XC43 Love- 



" Happy's the love which meets return, 
When in soft flame souls equal burn ; 
But words are wanting to discover 
The torments of a hapless lover." 

Burns, Mary Scott. 
»44 Love— 

" But surely 'tis the worst of pain, ^24 

To love and not be loved again." 

Moore, Odes of Anacreon. 

1045 Lovers — 

" All lovers swear more performance than they are able." 
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida. 

1046 Lovers — 

" But love is blind, and lovers cannot see 
The pretty follies that themselves commit." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

1047 Loves, Old— 

" My love is fair, my love is gay, g,_ 

As fresh as bin the flowers in May, 
And of my love a roundelay 
Concludes with Cupid's curse, 
They that do change old loves for new, 
Pray Gods, they change for worse." 

Peele, Song. 

1048 Luck— 

" Give your son luck, and throw him into the sea." p-ar. 

Spanish Proverb, tsssx 

1049 Lying— 

" In one way or other (if not to you, to themselves) most Lfw 
men delight in lying ; all in being lied to. provided the Hp 
be soft and gentle, and imperceptible in its approaches.*' 
Landor, Imaginary Conversations 
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1050 Lying— a ho 

" Like one I522 

Who having into truth, by telling of it, 
Made such a sinner of his memory, 
To credit his own lie." 

Shakespeare, The Tempest 

1051 Lying— 

" Children and fools cannot lie." 

Heywood, Proverbs. 

1052 Lying— 

" We men will sometimes lie outright ; women, like all 961 
passive creatures, seldom invent, but can so distort a fact 
that they can thereby injure us more surely than by a 
downright lie." — Heine, Confessions, 

1053 Lying— 

" If you have reason to suspect that a person is telling 
you a lie, look as though you believed every word he said. 
This will give him courage to go on ; he will become 
more vehement in his assertions, and in the end betray 
himself." —Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

1054 Lying— 

"As universal a practice as lying is, and as ersy a 
one as it seems, I do not remember to have heard three 
good lies in all my conversation, even from those who 
were most celebrated in that faculty." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1055 Lying— 

" Lord, lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of 
lying." — Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. 

1056 Madness— 

" There is a pleasure 
In being mad which none but madmen know." 

Dryden, The Spanish Friar. 

1057 Majestic — 

"Majestic though in ruin." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

1058 Majority, The— Muiti- 

• There is nothing more odious than the majority ; for public 
it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of 274 
accommodating scoundrels and subservient weaklings, 330 
and a mass of men who trudge after them without in the 834 
least knowing their own minds." 1089 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 1709 
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1059 Malice — also 

" Malice sucks up the greatest part of her own venom, 741 
and therewith poisoneth herself." — Montaigne, Essays, 

1060 Man — 

" What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! 
how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving, how express 
and admirable ! in action, how like an angel ! in 
apprehension, how like a god ! the beauty of the world I 
the paragon of animals ! " — Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1061 Man— 

" Bounded in his nature, infinite in his views, man is a 
fallen god, who remembers heaven, his former dwelling- 
place." — Lamartine, Second Meditations. 

1062 Man — 

" that various creature— Man." 

Burns, Verses to My Bed. 

1063 Man— 

" No philosopher shall ever again persuade me that I 1314 
am a god. I am only a poor human creature that is not 
over well; that is, indeed, very ill." — Heine, Confessions. 

1064 Man — 

" but Man, 
Oh ! that beast Man ! Come ! let's be sad, my girls ! " 
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy* 

1065 Man— 

" Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he 
is the only animal that is struck with the difference 
between what things are and what they ought to be." 

Hazlitt, Essays, 

1066 Man— 

" What's man in all his boast of sway? 96 

Perhaps the tyrant of a day." — Gay, Fables. 670 

1067 Man— 

" A man's a man for a' that." Rank, 

Burns, A Man's a Man for A y That. et c- 

1068 Man— 

" Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable 213 
subject."— Montaigne, Essays. 1176 

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ic6g Man — a / v 

" For here he owns, that now and then 
Beasts may degenerate into men." 

Swift, The Beast's Confession, 

1070 Man— 

" There is no man alone, because every man is a *3?* 
microcosm, and carries the whole world about him." 

Browne, Religio Medici, 

1071 Man — 

" Man upon this earth would be vanity and hollowness, Life, 
dust and ashes, vapour and a bubble, were it not that he Work!, 
felt himself to be so. That it is possible for him to harbour ^° pe * 
such a feeling- — this, by implying - a comparison of himself 
with something" higher in himself, this is it which makes 
him the immortal creature that he is." 

Richter, De Quincey's Analects, 

1072 Man — 

" But man, proud man, 
Drest in a little brief authority, 
Most ignorant of what he's most assured, 
His glassy essence, like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven 
As make the angels weep." 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 

1073 Man— 

"As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the Life 
fi?ld so he flourisheth." — Book of Psalms, 7 s8 

873 

1074 Man— 

" In brief, we are all monsters, that is, a composition of 1423 
man and beast, wherein we must endeavour to be as the 
poets fancy that wise man Chiron, that is, to have the 
region of man above that of beast, and sense to sit but at 
the feet of reason." — Browne, Religio Medici. 

1075 Man, A — 

" He was a man, take him for all in all." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1076 Mankind — 

" Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is neces- 1702 
sai T * fo join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order 
not' to be trampled to death by them." 

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1077 Mankind— & i s0 

" In order to love mankind, we must not expect too 
much of them." — Helvetius. 

1078 Mankind, The Study of — 

" The proper study of mankind is man." Char- 

Pope, Essay on Man. act< ? r » 

1079 Manners, 111— Insght 

" Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense, are the three 313 

great sources of ill manners." 598 

Swift, Treatise on Good Manners. 643 

1080 Many-sidedness — 

" Let us be many-sided ! Turnips are pleasing to the 993 
taste, especially when mixed with chestnuts. And these 1001 
two noble products grow far apart. A man is many-sided i7 8 5 
only if he strives after higher things because he must (in 
earnest), and descends unto lower ones because he wills 
(in jest)." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1081 Marriage — 

" Then be not coy, but use your time ; Bachelor 

And while ye may, go marry : 
For having lost but once your prime, 
You may for ever tarry." 

Herrick, Counsel to Girls. 

1082 Marriage— 

"There are many who marry from utter indigence of 183a 
thought, captivated by the playfulness of youth, as if a 
kitten were never to be a cat ! " 

Landor, hnaginary Conversations. 

1083 Marriage— 

" If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal." 

Ovid, Heroides. 

1084 Marriage — 

" Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least 
concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'tis most 
meddled with by other people." — Selden, Table Talk. 

1085 Marriage— 

" O, what men dare do ! what men may do ! what men 
daily do, not knowing what they do ! " 

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 
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1086 Marriage — also 

" Marry your son when you will ; your daughter when 
you can." — Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 

1087 Marriage — 

" A young man married is a man that's marred." 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well. 

1088 Marriages, Unhappy— 

" The reason why so few marriages are happy is because 1834 
young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in 
making cages." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1089 Masses, The— 

" That is the doctrine you've inherited from our fore- Multi- 
fathers, and go on heedlessly proclaiming far and wide *" d< r' 
— the doctrine that the multitude, the vulgar herd, the j tv ajor " 
masses, are the pith of the people — that they are the Crowd, 
people — that the common man, the ignorant, undeveloped Public 
member of society, has the same right to condemn and to 
sanction, to counsel and to govern, as the intellectually 
distinguished few " (Dr. Stockmann). 

Ibsen, An Enemy of the People. 

1090 Mastery— 

" Mastery often passes for egoism." I3 68 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 152 5 

1091 Mean, The Golden — 

" He that holds fast the golden mean, Gold, 

And lives contentedly between Wealth, 

The little and the great, Fame V 

Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, «tc. 

Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, 
Embittering all his state." 

Horace, Odes (Cowper). 

1092 Meaning— 

" Where more is meant than meets the ear." Words 

Milton, 11 Penseroso. 

1093 Mediocrity — 

" I will not feed on doing great tasks ill, Origin- 

Dull the world's sense with mediocrity, allt y 

And live by trash that smothers excellence." 49 s 

George Eliot, Armgart. 
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1094 /♦lediocrity— also 

"A man is never mediocre when he has much good 
sense and much good feeling/' — Joubert, Thoughts. 

1095 Melancholy — Sorrows 

" Hence, loathed melancholy." Um* 

Milton, V Allegro. neS s, 

1096 Melancholy— etc 

" Aye, in the very Temple of Delight 1559 

Veil'd Melancholy has her sovereign shrine." 
Keats, Ode on Melancholy. 

1097 Melancholy— 

" Hence all you vain delights, ni 5 

As short as are the nights !6oo 

Wherein you spend your folly : 
There's nought in this life sweet 
If men were wise to see't 
But only melancholy, 
O sweetest Melancholy ! " 

FLETCHER, Melancholy. 

1098 Melancholy— 

"And melancholy marked him for her own." 

Gray, Elegy, 

1099 Melancholy— 

" Melancholy is the nurse of phrenzy. ' 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, 

1100 Melancholy— 

" There's not a string attuned to mirth, 
But has its chord in melancholy." 

Hood, Ode to Melancholy. 
hoi Memory — 

" Then for a beam of joy to light Past, 

In memory's sad and wakeful eye ! Grief W ' 

Or banish from the noon of night etc# 

Her dreams of deeper agony." 

Campbell, Stanzas to Fainting. 
110a Memory— 

" ■ A cup for memory ' ! 
Cold cup that one must drain alone : 
While autumn winds are up and moan 
Across the barren sea." 

Christina G. Rossetti, Three Seasons, 
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1103 Memory— a / so 

" O Memory ! thou fond deceiver 1599 

Still importunate and vain, 
To former joys recurring" ever, 
And turning all the past to pain ; 
Thou, like the world, the opprest, oppressing, 
Thy smiles increase the wretch's woe ; 
And he who wants each other blessing, 
In thee must ever find a foe." — Goldsmith, Song. 

H04 Memory — 

" Our memories are independent of our wills." * 0, a 

Sheridan, The Rivals. 

1105 Memory — 

" Those graves of memory where sleep 
The joys of other years." 

Montgomery, Issues of Life and Death. 

1106 Memory— 

" Stand still, fond fettered wretch ! while Memory's art 
Parades the Past before thy face, and lures 
Thy spirit to her passionate portraitures : 
Till the tempestuous tide-gates flung apart 
Flood with wild will the hollows of thy heart, 
And thy heart rends thee, and thy body endures." 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Parted Love. 

1107 Memory — 

" When I remember all Past, 

The friends so linked together Dead 

I've seen around me fall 23 

Like leaves in wintry weather, _? 

I feel like one ™ 

Who treads alone 
Some banquet-hall deserted, 

Whose lights are fled, 

Whose garlands dead, 
And all but he departed ! 
Thus in the stilly night 
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, 
Sad memory brings the light 
Of other days around me." 

Moore, Oft in the Stilly Night. 
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1108 Memory — 

" They are all gone into the world of light ! 
And I alone sit lingering here ; 
Their very memory is fair and bright, 
And my sad thoughts doth clear." 

Vaughan, Friends in Paradise. 

nog Memory — 

" Remember me when I am gone away, 
Gone far away into the silent land ; 
When you can no more hold me by the hand, 
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning, stay." 

Christina G. Rossetti, Remember. 

mo Memory — 

"What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! 
How sweet their memory still ! 
But they have left an aching void, 
The world can never fill." 

Cowper, Walking with God. 
mi Men— 

" Men are but children of a larger growth." 

Dryden, Prologue to All for Love. 

1112 Men — 

" Be strong, and quit yourselves like men." 

First Book of Samuel. 

1113 Merciful — 

" O, let us yet be merciful." 

Shakespeare, Henry V. 

1114 Mercy — 

" Teach me to feel another's woe, 
To hide the fault I see ; 
That mercy I to others show, 
That mercy show to me." 

Pope, Universal Prayer. 

1115 Mercy— 

" And mercy, encouraging thought ! 
Gives even affliction a grace, 
And reconciles man to his lot." 

Cowper, Verses supposed to be Written by 

Alexander Selkirk. 

1116 Mercy — 

"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none 
ourselves," — George Eliot, Adam Bede. 
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1597 



Man, 
231 



Forgive- 
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Charity, 
Mercy, 
Sin, 
Evil 



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1117 Mercy — 

" The quality of mercy is not strained ; 

It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven 

Upon the place beneath : it is twice blest ; 

It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes * 

'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes 

The throned monarch better than his crown ; 

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, 

The attribute to awe and majesty, 

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; 

But mercy is above this sceptred sway, 

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, 

It is an attribute to God himself ; 

And earthly power doth then show likest God's, 

When mercy seasons justice." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

1118 Mercy— 

" He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he." 

Book of Proverbs. 

1119 Mercy— 

" Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge." 

Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus. 

1120 Middle=Age— 

" On his bold visage middle age 

Had slightly pressed its signet sage, 
Yet had not quenched the open truth 
And fiery vehemence of youth : 
Forward and frolic glee were there, 
The will to do, the soul to dare." 

Scott, Lady of the Lake. 

1121 Mighty, The— 

" How are the mighty fallen ! " 

Second Book of Samuel. 

1122 Mind — 

" Mind is the spell which governs earth and heaven." 
Matthew Arnold, Evipedocles on Etna. 

1123 Mind, The— 

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, 
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

1124 Mind, The— 

"'Tis the mind that makes the body rich." 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew. 
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Poor, 
Charity 



Intellect, 

Thought, 
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1125 Mind, The— also 

" We measure minds by their stature ; it would be 
better to estimate them by their beauty." 

JOUBERT, Thoughts. 

1126 Mind, The— 

" The life of the mind is not only a protection against 393 
boredom, it also wards off the pernicious effects of bore- 9?« 
dom ; it keeps us from bad company, from the many 
dangers, misfortunes, losses and extravagances which the 
man who places his happiness entirely in the objective 
world is sure to encounter." 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 
1137 Mind, A Golden— 

" A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

1128 Mind, Deformity of — 

" All deformity of mind is more obnoxious than that of 
the body, because it contravenes a higher beauty." 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of V/orldly Wisdom. 

1129 Minds, Great— 

" Great minds, of which there is scarcely one in a Genius 
hundred millions, are thus the lighthouses of humanity ; Origin- 
and without them mankind would lose itself in the bound- ty 
less sea of monstrous error and bewilderment." 

Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

1130 Miracle, A— - 

"A miracle is the pet child of faith." — Goethe. 

1131 Mirth— 

" I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to 
look upon one another next morning." 

Walton, Compleat Angler. 

1 132 Mirth — 

" Mirths and toys 
To cozen time withal." 
Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Pilgrimage. 

1133 Mirth— 

" The mirth and fun grew fast and furious." 

Burns, Tarn 0' Shanter. 

1134 Mirth— 

" Mirth cannot move a soul in agony." 

Shakespeare, Loves Labour's Lost. 
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1135 Misanthrope— also 

" Your true misanthrope is not found in the wilderness, World, 
but in the world ; since it is not philosophy but experience Ma ?> 
of life which engenders the dislike of mankind — so much fS? iety ' 
so, that if a man-hater will retire from society, he will, in 
solitude, cease to be a man-hater." 

Leopardi, Thoughts. 

1136 Misanthropos— 

" I am misanthropos, and hate mankind." 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens. 

1137 Misanthropy— 

" Misanthropy is not the disgust of the mind at human 
nature, but with itself ; or it is laying its own exaggerated 
vices and foul blots at the door of others." 

Hazlitt, Essays. 

1138 Mischief— 

"Mischief! thou art swift, 
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men." 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. 

1139 Mischief— 

" But when to mischief mortals bend their will, 
How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! " 

Pope, Rape of the Lock. 

1140 Misery — 

" Disappointed love makes the misery of youth, dis- Love, 
appointed ambition that of manhood ; and successful AmD1 * 
avarice that of age." — Goldsmith, Citizen of the World. Avarice 

1141 Misery— 

" Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." II46 

Shakespeare, The Tempest. 

1142 Misery — 

" The safest way of not being very miserable, is not to Happi- 
expect to be very happy." Jjess, 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. e°™ ow ' 

1143 Misery — 

" But misery still delights to trace 
Its semblance in another's case." 

Cowper, The Castaway. 
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1144 Misery — also 

" O, heaven ! O, earth ! O, justice ! if it were through 1358 
conquest, or by a master's tyranny, that the people were 
perishing, they could endure it. But they perish through 
good nature ! " — Michelet, French Revolution, 

1145 Misfortune— 

11 We can more easily bear a misfortune which comes to Char- 
us entirely from without, than one which we have drawn a cter 
upon ourselves ; for fortune may always change, but not 20X 
character." — Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

1146 Misfortune, Brethren in— 

"A bond of union is soon formed between brethren in 549 
misfortune." — Le Sage, Gil Bias. 1141 

1147 Misfortune, Fellows in — 

" One writ with me in sour misfortune's book." 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. 

1148 Misfortunes, Bearing Another's— 

" I never knew any man in my life who could not bear Sym- 
another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian." pathy 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1149 Misfortunes, Making Moan of— 

"When a man makes open moan of his misfortunes, 
however real they may be, he often diminishes the esteem 
and affection of his dearest friends." 

Leopardi, Thoughts. 

1150 Misfortunes of Others, The— 

"Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of 1682 
others." — Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. 

1151 Misfortunes of Others, The — 

"We all bear the misfortunes of other people with an 
heroic constancy." — La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. 

1152 Mission— 

" Everybody does, or ought to feel unhappy till he finds Work, 
OUt what to do."— CARLYLE. Labour 

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1153 Mission— a/ * 

" Every extraordinary man has a certain mission which 
he is called upon to accomplish. If he has fulfilled it, he 
is no longer needed upon earth in the same form, and 
Providence uses him for some other purpose." 

Goethe. 

1154 Mission, A Would-be — 

" The man who comes into the world with the notion 1225 
that he is really going" to instruct it in matters of the 1702 
highest importance, may thank his stars if he escapes with 
a whole skin." — Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

1155 Misunderstandings— 

" No one would venture to speak much in society, if he 
were aware how often one misunderstands others." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 
H56 Misunderstood, Being— 

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was 492 
misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and 7 06 
Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and 
wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be 
misunderstood." — Emerson, Self- Reliance. 

1157 Misuse— 

" She misused me past the endurance of a block." 

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 
U58 Modesty — 

" Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not en- 
riched with nobler virtues." 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. 

1 159 Modesty — 

" Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and 
nothing is more contemptible than the false." 

Addison, The Spectator. 

1160 Modesty— 

" Modesty should be the virtue of those who possess no Humi- 
other." — Lichtenberg, Miscellaneous Writings. lity 

710 

1161 Modesty— 

' ' No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a 
very advantageous thing for the fools ; for everybody is 
expected to speak of himself as if he were one. This is 
levelling down indeed ! for it comes to look as if there 
were nothing but fools in the world." 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 
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1162 Modesty— a/so 

" On their own merits modest men are dumb." 

Colman, Epilogue to the Heir at Law. 

1163 Modesty— 

" He who wishes to rise, whatever his true worth may 
be, must say good-bye to modesty. In this respect the 
world is like women — modesty and reserve have little 
success with the one or the other." — Leopardi, Thoughts, 

1164 Modesty and Impudence— 

" An impudent fellow may counterfeit modesty ; but I'll 
be hanged if a modest man can ever counterfeit impu- 
dence." — Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, 

1165 Modesty, False— 

" False modesty is the last refinement of vanity. It is 796 
a lie." — La Bruyere, Characters. 

1166 Money— 

" Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. Wealth, 
We must know the province of it, and confine it there ; p? 1 ^' 
and even spurn it back, when it wishes to get further." Riches 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes, 

1167 Money — 

"My pleasure of thought is the pleasure of thinking, 
How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho ! 
How pleasant it is to have money." 

Arthur Hugh Clough, Dipsychus. 

1168 Money— 

11 Get money ; still get money, boy, 
No matter by what means." 

Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, 

1169 Money — 

" A wise man should have money in his head, but not in 680 
his heart." — Swift. 1757 

1768 

1170 Money— 

" The great question is not so much what money you 
have i your pocket, as what you will buy with it." 

Ruskin. 

1171 Money — 

" Why nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal." 
Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, 
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1172 Moral— a i so 

11 Moral to the last ! " — Sheridan, School for Scandal. 

1173 Moralist, The— 

" How poor a thing is man ! alas, 'tis true 
I'd half forgotten it — when I chanced on you ! ' 

Schiller, l^he Moral Toet. 

1174 Morality— 

" Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to 543 
the ordinary rules of morality." 1559 

Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

1175 Morality — 

" What ! Is Morality dumb, too ? " 

Sheridan, School for Scandal. 

1176 Mortals— 

" Lord, what fools these mortals be ! " 

Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream* 

1177 Mother— 

"A mother is a mother still, 
The holiest thing alive." 

Cowper, The Three Graves 

1178 Mother, A Dead— 

" Oh, my dear mother, oh thou dear dead saint ! 
Where's now that placid face, where oft hath sat 
A mother's smile, to think her son should thrive 
In this bad world, when she was dead and gone?" 
Lamb, Written on the Day of My Aunts Funeral. 

1179 Motives— 

" The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict 202 
an inquiry ; it is allowed that the cause of most actions, 206 
good or bad, may be resolved in the love of ourselves ; 
but the self-love of some men inclines them to please 
others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in 
pleasing themselves ; this makes the great distinction 
between virtue and vice." 

SwiFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1180 Multitude, The— 

" The multitude is always in the wrong." Crowd, 

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1181 Multitude, The— a / so 

" If there be any among those common objects of Major- 
hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy jjYt . 
of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude : that tu j e l ' 
numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem i0 3q 
men, and the reasonable creatures of God ; but, confused 
together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity 
more prodigious than Hydra." — Browne, Religio Medici, 

1182 Munificence — 

" Whoever has reared the standard of munificence must 
not again put a check upon his expenses. Once thy fame 
has got abroad in the street, thou canst not again shut 
thy door in the face of it." — Sadi, Gulistan. 

1183 Murder— 

" Murder most foul, as in the best it is." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1184 Murder— 

" Murder cannot be hid."— Marlowe, King Edward IL 

1185 Music- 

Music oft hath such a charm, 
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm." 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. 

1186 Music— 

" There is something in it of divinity more than the ear 
discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of 
the whole world, and creatures of God ; such a melody to 
the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford 
the understanding." — Browne, Religio Medici, 

H87 Music— 

" Music, which makes giddy the dim brain, 
Faint with intoxication of keen joy." 

Shelley, Prometheus Unbound. 
1188 Music— 

" One whose whole heart of love, being set of yore 
On that high joy which music lends us, cast 
Light round him forth of music's radiant store." 

Swinburne, A Century of Roundels. 
xx8g Music— 

" Music, moody food of us that trade in love." 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleojatra. 
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1190 Music— aiso 

" Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast." 

Congreve, The Mourning Bride 
xigi Music— 

" Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, 
Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes ; 
Music that brings sweet sleep down from the 
blissful skies." — Tennyson, Choric Song, 

1192 Music— 

" The man that hath no music in himself, 
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; 
The motions of his spirit are dull as night, 
And his affections dark as Erebus : 
Let no such man be trusted." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice* 

1193 Music— 

" No mortal music made of thoughts and tears, 

But such a song, past conscience of man's thought, 
As hearing he grows god and knows it not." 

Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse* 

1194 Music— 

" Angel of Music ! when the finest speech 
Is all too coarse to give the heart relief, 
The inmost fountains lie within thy reach, 
Soother of every joy and every grief ; 
And to the stumbling words thou lendest wings 
On which aloft th' enfranchised spirit springs." 

William Allingham, The Music Master. 

1195 Music — 

" I will not say, with Plato, the soul is an harmony, but 
harmonical, and hath its nearest sympathy unto music. " 

Browne, Religio Medici* 

1196 Music — 

"So clear, so deep, the divine drear accents flow, 
No soul that listens may choose but thrill to know it. 
Pierced and wrung by the passionate music's throe." 
Swinburne, A Ce?itti;y of Roundels. 

1197 Music— 

" Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure, 
Thrill the deepest notes of woe." 

Burns, Sensibility, 
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1198 Music — also 

" And music lifted up the listening spirit 
Until it walked, exempt from mortal care, 
Godlike, o'er the billows of sweet sound." 

Shelley, Prometheus Unbound* 

1199 Music— 

" There's music in all things, if men had ears." 

Byron, Don Juan. 

1200 Mysteries— 

" Mysteries are by no means necessarily the same 
thing as miracles." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1201 Name— 

" What's in a name? that which we call a rose, Worda 

By any other name would smell as sweet." 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet* 

1202 Name, A — 

" A name which you all know by sight very well ; 
But which no one can speak, and no one can spell." 
Southey, The March to Moscow. 

1203 Name, Discussion about a— 

" Wits, just like Fools, at war about a name 275 

Have full as oft no meaning, or the same." 1276 

Pope, Essay on Man. 

1204 Narrow-mindedness— 

" In men this blunder still you find, 300 

All think their little set mankind." 

Hannah More, The Bas Bleu. 

1205 Narrow=souled, The— 

" It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked 814 
bottles — the less they have in them, the more noise they 
make in pouring it out." 

Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1206 National Character— 

" Since you cannot speak of national character without Major- 
referring to large masses of people, it is impossible to be lt Y> 
loud in your praises and at the same time honest." etc# 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

1207 National Character— 

" Free nations are haughty ; others may more properly 
be called vain." — Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws. 

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1208 Nations, The— a lso 

" Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are 
right." — Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

1209 Native Land, The— 

" Breathes there the man with soul so dead, 
Who never to himself hath said, 
This is my own, my native land ? " 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, 

1210 Nature— 

" Nature never did betray 
The heart that loved her." 

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. 

1211 Nature— 

" Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way : she 
better understands her own affairs than we." 

Montaigne, Essays. 

1212 Nature — 

" Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful. " 

Tennyson, The Lovers Tale. 

1213 Nature— 

"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part ; 
Do thou but thine ! " — Milton, Paradise Lost. 

1214 Nature— 

" Sweet is the lore which nature brings ; 1309 

Our meddling intellect 

Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things : — 
We murder to dissect." 

Wordsworth, The Tables Turned. 

1215 Nature— 

" One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida. 

1216 Nature and Art— 

" Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, 81 

One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, 
Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, 
At once the source, and end, and test of art." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 
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1217 Nature, The Love of— also 

"'Tis born with all ; the love of nature's works 
Is an ingredient in the compound, man. 
Infused at the creation of the kind." 

Cowper, The Task. 

1218 Necessity— 

" Teach thy necessity to reason thus, 
There is no virtue like necessity." 

Shakespeare, Richard II. 

1219 Necessity— 

" Necessity is the argument of tyrants ; it is the creed 
of slaves." — William Pitt, Speeches. 

1220 Necessity— 

" Necessity — the tyrant's plea." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

J22i Necessity— 

" Necessity does the work of courage." 

George Eliot, Romola. 

1222 Necessity— 

"Necessity, thou mother of the world." 

Shelley, Queen Mab. 

T223 New, The— 

" The blase" King of Judea said rightly, There is no new 989 
thing under the sun. Perhaps that sun itself, which now 1668 
beams so imposingly, is only an old warmed-up jest." 

Heine, Confessions. 

1224 New, The— 

" If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is 49a 
usually himself that he harms more than any one else." 
George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

1225 New Opinions— 

" Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a 832 
minority of one. In one man's head alone, there it dwells 1700 
as yet. One man alone of the whole world believes it ; 1708 
there is one man against all men." 

Carlyle, Heroes and Hero- Worship. 

1226 News— 

" I can tell you strange news that you yet dreamed not 
of. " — Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, 
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1227 News, Evil— also 

" Evil news rides post, while good news baits." 

Milton, Samson Agonistes. 

1228 Newspaper Editor— 

" Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil." 885 
La Fontaine, Letter to Simon de Troyes. 

1229 Newspapers — 

" Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever 
lays one down with a feeling of disappointment." 

Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 

1230 Nice Man, A— 

" A nice man is a man of nasty ideas." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1231 Night— 

" Night, when deep sleep falleth upon men." 

Book of Job. 

1232 Night— 

" 'Tis now the very witching time of night." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet; 

1233 Night— 

" When night 
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons 
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." 

Milton, Paradise Lost* 

1234 Night— 

" O weary night, O long and tedious night, 
Abate thy hours ! " 

Shakespeare, Midsummer Nighfs Dream, 

1235 Noisiness in Argument— 76 

" Vociferated logic kills me quite, — 2 93 

A noisy man is always in the right." I2 53 
Cowper, Conversation. 

1236 Notoriety— 

" There are men who don't mind being kicked blue if 
they can only be talked about." 

George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

1237 Novels — 

" And novels (witness every month's Review) 
Belie their name, and offer nothing new." 

Cowper, Retirement. 
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1238 Novelty— also 

" The novelty of things doth more incite us to search 
out the causes than their greatness." 

Montaigne, Essays. 

1239 Oath, Breaking an — 

" But let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath." 

Shakespeare, Richard II. 

1240 Obligation — 

" Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a 
brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young 
to know its meaning." — George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

1241 Obligation, An — 

" To John I owed great obligation ; 
But John, unhappily, thought fit 
To publish it to all the nation : 
Sure John and I are more than quit." 

Prior, Epigram. 

1242 Obscurity— 

" He who would tax an author with obscurity should 1649 
first of all examine his own mind, to see if it is perfectly 1703 
clear. In the twilight even the clearest writing is rendered 
illegible." — Goethe, Re/lections and Maxims. 

1243 Obstacles— 

" The most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can 
see except one's self." — George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

1244 Occupation— 

" Occupation is the scythe of time." Work, 

Napoleon Bonaparte. Labom 

1245 Occupation, Absence of— 

" Absence of occupation is not rest." 

C owpe R, Retit ement. 

1246 Offences — 

" All offences are either against our Maker, our neigh- Faults, 
bour, or ourselves." — Steele, The Lover. E v il, 

Sin 

1247 Old — 

i 'Why art thou old, and want'st experience?" 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI 

1248 Old Man— 

"When he is forsaken, withered and shaken, , 3 

What can an old man do but die ? " I 55« 

Hood, Ballads, etc. 
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1249 Old Man, An— also 

11 An old man is twice a child." 33, 58 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 583 

1250 Old Men— 

" Some old men, by continually praising" the time of 
their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no 
fools in those days ; but unluckily they are left themselves 
for examples." — Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

1251 Old Things— 

" Old things are passed away: behold, all things are 1223 
become new." — Second Epistle to the Corinthians. i663 

1252 Opinion of Others, The — 

" It is never the opinion of others that displeases us ; 
but the wish they sometimes have of imposing it upon us 
against our will." — Joubert, Thoughts. 

1253 Opinion, Difference of— 

" I could never divide myself from any man upon the 75 
difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment 
for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps 
within a few days I should dissent myself." 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

1254 Opinions— 

" How long halt ye between two opinions ? " 

First Book of Kings. 

1255 Opponents, Discussing the Merits of — 

" There is hardly a greater advantage for a man to 45* 
acquire than that of discussing - the merits of his oppo- 
nents ; it gives him a decided ascendency over them." 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1256 Opposition— 

" Opposition gives opinion strength." — Swift. 

1257 Opposition — 

" Opponents think that they refute us when they repeat Dispute 
their own opinions and take no notice of ours." 75 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1258 Opposition — 

" Opposition embitters the enthusiast, but never con- 
verts him." — Schiller, Cabale und Liebe. 

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1259 Order— a lso 

" Oh ! that perpetual law and order ! I often think 
that's what does all the mischief here in the world ! " (Mrs. 
Alving). — Ibsen, Ghosts. 

1260 Order — 

" And who but wishes to invert the laws 
Of Order, sins against th' Eternal Cause.'' 

Pope, Essay on Man, 

1261 Organ, The— 

" But oh ! what art can teach, 
And human voice can reach 
The sacred organ's praise ? 
Notes inspiring holy love, 
Notes that wing their heavenly ways 
To mend the choirs above." 

Dryden, Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 

1262 Originality— Great 

" Great, genuine and extraordinary work can be done Men, 
only in so far as its author disregards the method, the J e ™ us » 
thoughts, the opinion of his contemporaries, and quietly i^rjon. 
works on, in spite of their criticism, on his side despising fo/mity, 
what they praise." — Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 823, 297 

1263 Originality — 

" An ounce of a man's own wit is worth a ton of other 822 
people's." — Sterne, Tristram Shandy. 

1264 Originality— 

"The most foolish error of all is made by clever young 1656 
men in thinking that they forfeit their originality if they 
recognize a truth which has already been recognized by 
others." — Goethe, Refections and Maxims. 

1265 Ornament— 

" The world is still deceived with ornament." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

1266 Orthodoxy — 127 

" And prove their doctrine orthodox, i3°7 

By apostolic blows and knocks." *438 

Butler, Hudibras. *447 

1267 Ostentation— 

" Hence ostentation here, with tawdry art, 
Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart." 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 
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1268 Outside, Trusting to Men's — a i so 

u Youth unadmonish'd by a guide, Char- 
Will trust to any fair outside, — acter, 
An error soon corrected ; cmy° 
For who but learns with riper years, etc. 
That man, when smoothest he appears, 1319 
Is most to be suspected ? " 

Cowper, On Friendship, 

1269 Oysters— 

" He was a bold man who first ate an oyster." 

Swift, Conversation, 

1270 Pain— 

" I would not have thee linger in thy pain." 

Shakespeare, Othello, 

1271 Painting— 

" Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a 1320 
thought and a thing." — Coleridge, Table Talk, 

1272 Painting— 

li The complete painters, we find, have brought dimness 
and mystery into their method of colouring. That means 
that the world all round them has resolved to dream, or 
to believe, no more ; but to know, and to see." 

Ruskin, Lectures on Art, 

1273 Painting— 

" Picture 1 is the invention of heaven, the most ancient 
and most akin to Nature." — Ben Jonson, Discoveries, 

1274 Parents, IUiberality of— 

" The illiberality of parents in allowance towards their 
children is an harmful error ; makes them base ; acquaints • 
them with shifts ; makes them sort with mean company ; 
and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty ; 
and therefore, the proof is best when men keep their 
authority towards their children, but not their purse." 

Bacon, Essays. 

1275 Parting— 

" In every parting there is an image of death." 

George Eliot, Amos Barton 

\i, e. Painting. 
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1276 Party— also 

"Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, 1204 

And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 

1277 Party— 

"It is rather too much for any man to keep the con- 
science of all his party." — George Eliot, Felix Holt. 

1278 Party Feeling— 

"A wise dissimulation is the only course for moderate 
rational men in times of violent party feeling." 

George Eliot, Romola. 

1279 Passion — 

" Passion is the drunkenness of the mind." — Spenser. 

1280 Passion — 

" Give me that man 
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him 
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts." 

-Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1281 Passion— 

" Cast your good counsels upon his passion." 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale. 
1283 Passions, The— 

" Our passions are faults or virtues, only intensified.' 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims* 

1283 Passions, The— 

" The passions are the voice of the body." — Rousseau, 

1284 Passions, The— 

" Passions are to me as easy to be avoided as they are 
difficult to be moderated."— Montaigne, Essays. 

1285 Passions, The— 

" For passions are spiritual rebels, and raise seditions 
against the understanding." — Ben Jonson, Discoveries. 

1286 Passions, The— 

" There are moments when our passions speak and 
decide for us, and we seem to stand by and wonder. 
They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that in one 
instant does the work of long premeditation." 

George Eliot, Romola* 
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1287 Past, The— aho 

"We all of us live upon the past, and through the past 
we are destroyed.'* — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1288 Past, The— 

** In my poor mind it is most sweet to muse Memory 

Upon the days gone by." — Lamb, Childhood. 

1289 Past, The— 

" Nor deem the irrevocable past 
As wholly wasted, wholly vain, 
If, rising on its wrecks, at last 
To something nobler we attain." 

Longfellow, Ladder of S. Augustine. 

1290 Past, The— 

" O God, O God ! — that it were possible g88 

To undo things done." 

Hey wood, Woman Killed with Kindness. 

1291 Past, The— 

" But how carve way i' the life that lies before, 
If bent on groaning ever for the past ? " 

Browning, Balaustiorf s Adventure. 

1292 Past, The— 

" That true heaven, the recovered past, 
The dear small Known amid the Unknown vast.' 

George Eliot, Legend of Jubal. 

1293 Patience— 

" Patience is the art of hoping." 

Vauvenargues, Reflections. 

1294 Patience — 

" 'Tis all men's office to speak patience 3 g- 

To those that wring under the load of sorrow, 5 qq 

But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency, 
To be so moral when he shall endure 
The like himself." 

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 

1295 Patience — 

" He that has patience may compass anything. 268 

Rabelais, Gargantua and PantagrueL 

1296 Patience — 

"It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be 
patient." — George Eliot, Adam Bede. 
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1297 Peace— also 

" Peace hath her victories War 

No less renowned than war." 

Milton, Sonnet to Cromwell. 

1298 Peace — 

" Sacred Peace ! 
O visit me but once, and pitying shed 
One drop of balm upon my withered soul." 

Shelley, Queen Mab. 

1299 Peace, A — 

" A peace is of the nature of a conquest ; 
For then both parties nobly are subdued, 
And neither party loser." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. 

1300 Peculiarities— 

" Each of us has his peculiarities, of which he is unable 438 
to divest himself. And yet many a man is brought to 492 
destruction by his peculiarities, and those, too, of the 
most innocent kind." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1301 Pedantry— L^ 

" Pedantry is properly the overrating" of any kind of ing 

knowledge we pretend to." l6 2 

Swift, Treatise on Good Manners. 474 

1302 Pedantry— 

"Dilettantism, treated seriously, and knowledge pursued 
mechanically, lead to pedantry." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1303 Pen, A Merciless— 

" I had rather stand in the shock of a basilisk, than in 325 
the fury of a merciless pen." — Browne, Religio Medici. 326 

849 

1304 Perfection— 

" Yet every heart contains perfection's germ." 

Shelley, Queen Mab. 

1305 Peril— 

" Oft fire is without smoke 
And peril without show." 

Spenser, Faerie Queen. qq~ 

1306 Persecution— ?01 

" Persecution is a tribute the great must ever pay for 1262 

their pre-eminence." — Goldsmith, 1690 

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1307 Persecution— a/s0 

" Your teaching" orthodoxy with faggots may only bring 127 
up a fashion of roasting." 1266 

George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy, 

1308 Perseverance — 

" Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise ; it is 
only the duration of our inclinations and sentiments, 
which we can neither create nor extinguish.' 

La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. 

1309 Philosopher— 

" Philosopher ! a fingering slave, I9XI 

One that would peep and botanize I2 i4 

Upon his mother's grave ? " 

Wordsworth, A Poets Epitaph. 

1310 Philosophy— 

1 i Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy." 

Shakespeare, A'omeo and Juliet. 

1311 Philosophy— 

" This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, 
but an arrant jade on a journey." 

Goldsmith, The Good- Natured Man. 

1312 Philosophy — 

" Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, 1487 

Conquer all mysteries by rule and line. ' 

Keats, Lamia. 

1313 Philosophy— 

" A man of business may talk of philosophy ; a man who 
has none may practise it." 

Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1314 Philosophy— 

" Learn this — that philosophy beats 1053 

Sure time with the pulse — quick or slow 
As the blood from the heyday retreats, — 
But it cannot make gods of us — No ! " 

Schiller, To a Moralist. 

1315 Philosophy— 

" Do not all charms fly 
At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? 1214 

Keats, Lamia. 

1316 Physic — 

" For physic can but mend our crazy state, 
Patch an old building, not a new create." 

Dryden, Palamon and Arctic* 
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1317 Physic— also 

" This physic but prolongs thy sickly days." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, 

1318 Physic — 

" Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it." 

Shakespeare, Macbeth. 

1319 Physiognomy— 

" Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by 308 
which to judge of the character of men : it can only serve 1268 
us for conjecture." — La Bruyere, Characters, 

1320 Picture, A Good — 

"A good picture is a window. Through it we look 1271 
beyond it — far down long vistas of thought." 

Leigh Hunt. 

1321 Piety— 

" Piety is not an end, but a means ; a means of attaining 800 
the highest culture through the purest tranquillity of soul. 1440 
Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as 1445 
their ultimate aim and goal, must end by becoming 
hypocrites." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

132a Piety— 

" Piety is cheerful as the day." 

Cowper, Truth. 

1323 Piety— 

" How his piety 
Does my deeds make the blacker ! " 

Shakespeare, Winters Tale. 

1324 Pity— 

" To him that is afflicted, pity should be showed from his Sym- 
friend." — Book of Job. pathy 

626 

1325 Pity— 

" Taught by that Power that pities me, 
I learn to pity them." 

Goldsmith, The Hermit, 

1326 Place— 

" Where you are is of no moment, but only what you 605 

are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but 736 

you the place ; and this only by doing that which is great 1767 

and noble." — Petrarch. ^ 2 

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1327 Players— a !so 

" Players are ' the abstracts and brief chronicles of the g 
time,' the motley representatives of human nature. They 
are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary 
dream, a studied madness. The height of their ambition 
is to be beside themselves. To-day kings, to-morrow 
beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are 
nothing." — Hazlitt, Actors and Acting. 

1328 Pleasure— 

" Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit 813 

Of This and That endeavour and dispute ; 1386 

Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape 1787 

Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit." 

Omar KhayyAm (Edward Fitzgerald). 

1329 Pleasure — 

" All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of Happi- 
pain or languor ; it is like spending this year part of the ness 
next year's revenue." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

1330 Pleasure— 

" What is title ? what is treasure V' 1665 

What is reputation's care? 
If we lead a life of pleasure, 
'Tis no matter how or where." 

Burns, The Jolly Beggars. 

1331 Pleasure— 

" O, pleasure has cramped dwelling in our souls, 735 

And when full being comes must call on pain 
To lend it liberal space." 

George Eliot, ArmgarU 

1332 Pleasure— 

" Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, 
Our greatest evil, or our greatest good." 

Pope, Essay on Man. 

1333 Pleasure— 

" Pleasure admitted in undue degree 333 

Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free." 

Cowper, Progress of Error. 

1334 Pleasure after Pain — 

u Sweet is pleasure after pain." 7 35 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, 
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1335 Pleasures— ^Iso 

" But Pleasures are like poppies spread, 
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed I 
Or, like the snow-fall in the river, 
A moment white — then melts for ever." 

Burns, Tarn d Shanter. 

1336 Poet, The— 

4 'The true poet dreams being awake. He is not 431 
possessed by his subject, but has dominion over it. In 432 
the groves of Eden he walks familiar as in his native 
paths. He ascends the empyrean heaven, and is not 
intoxicated. He treads the burning marl without dismay ; 
he wins his flight without self-loss through realms 'of 
chaos and old night.' " 

Lamb, Last Essays of Elia. 

1337 Poet, The— 

" O dream not, midst this worldly strife, Philo 

An idle art the Poet brings : s °P h > 

Let high Philosophy control I3 ^ 

And sages calm the stream of life, I4 ^ 

'Tis he refines its fountain springs, 
The nobler passions of the soul." 

Campbell, Ode to the Me?nory of Burns. 

1338 Poet, The— 

" The poet must be tried by his peers, 1341 

And not by pedants and philosophers." 

Butler, Hudibras. 

1339 Poet, The— 

" The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 431 

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; 520 
And as imagination bodies forth 1336 

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name." 

Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. 

1340 Poetry— 

" I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess." 

Keats, Letters. 

1341 Poetry— 

" You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some v&& 
with you." — Joubert, Thoughts. 

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1342 Poetry— a lso 

11 Man is a poetical animal ; and those of us who do not 
study the principles of poetry act upon them all our lives, 
like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had always 
spoken prose without knowing- it." 

Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets, 

1343 Poetry— 

" Freedom needs all her poets : it is they 7°3 

Who give her aspirations wings, 
And to the wiser law of music sway 
Her wild imaginings." 

Lowell, To the Memory of Thomas Hood, 

1344 Poetry— 

''There have been many most excellent poets that never 
versified.' — Sidney, Apologiefor Poetrie. 

1345 Poetry— 

"It is in verse only that we throw off the yoke of the i6g8 
world, and are as it were privileged to utter our deepest 
and holiest feelings. Poetry in this respect may be called 
the salt of the earth ; we express in it, and receive in it, 
sentiments for which, were it not for this permitted medium, 
the usages of the world would neither allow utterance nor 
acceptance." — Southey, Colloquies on Society, 

1346 Poetry— 

"On a poet's lips I slept 
Dreaming like a love-adept 
In the sound his breathing kept ; 
Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, 
But feeds on the aerial kisses 
Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses." 
Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, 

1347 Poetry— 

" The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation 1312 
in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but 1487 
by sensation and watchfulness in itself." 

Keats, Preface to Endymion, 

1348 Poetry — 

" It is only the wretchedest of poets that wish all they 
ever wrote to be remembered : some of the best would be 
willing to lose the most." — Landor, To lanthe, 
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13^ Poets— oho 

" Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, 1607 

And tell them ; and the truth of truths is love." 

Philip James Bailey, Festus 

1350 Poets— 

11 Poets are far rarer births than kings." 

Ben Jonson. 

1351 Poets, Modern— 

"Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims* 

1352 Politeness — 

" Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax." 
Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims* 

«353 Politeness— 

" Politeness is in itself a power, and takes away the 
weight and galling from every other that we may 
exercise." — Landor, Pericles and Aspasia. 

'354 Politeness— 

" There is no outward sign of politeness which has not 
some profound moral reason for its basis. A proper 
system of education should teach us the sign and the 
reason at the same time." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

1355 Politeness— 

" Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in 
small things." — Macaulay, Essays, 

1356 Politeness of the Heart — 

" There is a politeness of the heart which is akin to 313 
love. It gives rise to the most agreeable politeness of 
outward conduct." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxima 

1357 Poor, The— 

" Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Poverty 

Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; 
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile 
The short and simple annals of the poor." 

Gray, Elegy. 
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1358 Poor, The— ah * 

" How long shall they reproach us, 616 

Where crowd on crowd they dwell, 887 

Poor ghosts of the wicked city, 940 

The gold-crushed hungry hell?" 1144 

William Morris, The Day is Coming, 

1359 Popularity— 

"Justice, forsooth! Does human life exhibit justice 607 
after this fashion? Is it the good always who ride in 610 
gold coaches, and the wicked who go to the workhouse ? 1366 
Is a humbug never preferred before a capable man ? 1417 
Does the world always reward merit, never worship cant, 1891 
never raise mediocrity to distinction ? never crowd to 
hear a donkey braying from a pulpit, nor never buy the 
tenth edition of a fool's book ? " 

Thackeray, Barry Lyndon. 

1360 Popularity— 

"A man must be still a greenhorn in the ways of the 299 
world, if he imagines that he can make himself popular in 302 
society by exhibiting intelligence and discernment. With 491 
the immense majority of people, such qualities excite 
hatred and resentment, which are rendered all the harder 
to bear by the fact that people are obliged to suppress 
— even to themselves — the real reason of their anger," 
Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

1361 Positive, The— 

" Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, 304 

The positive pronounce without dismay, 
Their want of light and intellect supplied 
By sparks absurdity strikes out of pride." 

Cowper, Conversation. 

1362 Poverty— 

" Sacred, and, by me, never-to-be-violated, Secrets of 
Poverty ! Should I disclose your honest aims at grandeur, 
your makeshift efforts of magnificence ? " 

Lamb, Last Essays of Elia. 

1363 Poverty— 

" If you be poor, do not seem poor, if you would avoid p 0o i 
insult as well as suffering." — Goldsmith. 

1364 Poverty— 

11 By numbers here from shame or censure free, 
All crimes are safe but hated poverty." 

Johnson, London. 
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1365 Poverty— also 
" A blind man is a poor man, and blind a poor man is ; 

For the former seeth no man, and the latter no man sees." 
Longfellow, Poverty and Blindness. 

1366 Poverty— 

"This mournful truth is ev'ry where confess'd, 
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd." 

Johnson, London. 

1367 Poverty, Concealing— 

"There is some merit in putting" a handsome face upon 
indigent circumstances. To bully and swagger away the 
sense of them before strangers, may not be always dis- 
commendable. Tibbs, and Bobadil, even when detectea, 
have more of our admiration than contempt." 

Lamb, Last Essays of Elia. 

1368 Power — 

"The strong ever wish to make power, to create it 1090 
themselves; but politicians go and seek it where it is." 
Mici-IELET, French Revolution. 

1369 Power — 

"It is a strange desire to seek power, and to love 908 
liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power 
over a man's self." — Bacon, Essays. 

1370 Power— 

" Power, like a desolating- pestilence, Author* 

Pollutes whate'er it touches ; and obedience, it; y» etc 

Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, 
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame 
A mechanized automaton." 

Shelley, Queen Mab. 

1371 Power — 

" Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, 
By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour." 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village. 

1372 Praise — 

" For praise too dearly loved or warmly sought, Flat* 

Enfeebles all internal strength and thought, terv 

And the weak soul, within itself unblest, 
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast." 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 



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1373 Praise— a iso 
" To praise a man is to place oneself on a level with him." 143* 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1374 Praise — 

" Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; 
a stranger, and not thine own lips." — Book of Proverbs. 

1375 Praise— 

" If you stroke a cat, it will purr ; and, as inevitably, if 
you praise a man, a sweet expression of delight will appear 
on his face ; and even though the praise is a palpable lie, 
it will be welcome if the matter is one on which he prides 
himself." — Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

1376 Praise— 

" Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise." 156a 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

13ft Praise followed by an exception— 

" I know no manner of speaking so offensive as that of 
giving praise, and closing it with an exception." 

Steele, Essays. 

1378 Praise from Fools— 

"A vile encomium doubly ridicules : 
There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools." 
Pope, Satires and Epistles. 

1379 Praise, Love of— 

"The truth of it is, this love of praise dwells most in 72 
great and heroic spirits ; and those who best deserve it 1391 
have generally the most exquisite relish of it." 

Steele, Essays. 

1380 Praise, Love of— 

"The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, 
Reigns more or less, and glows, in every heart.' 

Young, Satires* 

1381 Prayer 

" More things are wrought by prayer than this world 
dreams of." — Tennyson, Passing of Arthur. 

138a Prayer — 

** He prayeth best, who loveth best 
All things both great and small." 

Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner. 
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*383 Predecessor, Equalling a— also 

u To equal a predecessor one must have twice his worth." 
BALTHASAR Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 

1384 Prejudice— 

" Prejudice rules the vulgar." — Voltaire. 

1385 Prejudices— 

" Men's prejudices depend upon their individual char- Ps< 
acter ; therefore, when they are closely united to the cir- 
cumstances, they are insurmountable. Neither evidence, 
nor common-sense, nor reason, has the slightest effect 
upon them." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

(.386 Present, The— 

" Happy the man, and happy he alone, 132? 

He who can call to-day his own : X 6o5 

He who, secure within, can say, 
To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day." 
Dryden, Imitations of Horace. 

1387 Presumption — 

" Presumption is our natural and original disease." 

Montaigne, Essays. 

1388 Pride— Man, 

Life, 
" How strange is human pride." Glory, 

Shelley, Queen Mad. etc 

i 3 8g Pride— 2?I 

" Of all the causes which conspire to blind 
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, 
What the weak head with strongest bias rules, 
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

1390 Pride— 

"fPride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit 
before a fall." — Book of Proverbs. 

1391 Pride — 

" It is quite true that pride is something which is gener- 1379 
ally found fault with, and cried down ; but usually, I imagine, 
by those who have nothing on which they can pride them- 
selves." — Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 
153 



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1392 Pride — also 

"The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor 7g6 
inferiors. The first he does not admit of, the last he does 
not concern himself about." — Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

1393 Pride, National — 

" But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of 
which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource, pride in 
the nation to which he belongs ; he is ready and glad to 
defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus re- 
imbursing himself for his own inferiority." 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

1394 Procrastination — 

" Procrastination is the thief of time." 

Young, Night Thoughts. 

1395 Professional Men— 

"All professional men are greatly handicapped by not 
being allowed to ignore things which are useless." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1396 Progress — 

" Progress is _ 

" The law of life ; man is not Man as yet" vj* 

Browning, Paracelsus. 1 „ 
' 1851 

1397 Progress— 

"And what means that word Progress, which though 
understood in a thousand different ways, is yet found on 
every lip, and gradually becomes from day to day the 
watchword of all labours ? " 

Mazzini, Writings of Thomas Carlyle. 

1398 Prophecy — 

"Among all forms of mistakes, prophecy is the most 
gratuitous." — George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

1399 Prosperity— 

"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one 14 
man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that 680 
will stand adversity." — Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 

*4<w Proud, The— 

" The proud are always most provoked by pride." 

Cowper, Conversation. 
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401 Public, The— a f so 

" If the few men of true worth who seek fame only knew Multi- 
separately and individually all those persons who compose tu<te» 
that public whose esteem they court with such infinite ™ w 
pains, it is pretty certain that the ardour of their pursuit 74 
would be greatly cooled, if indeed they did not entirely ^ 
abandon it." — Leopardi, Thoughts. 

'402 Public, The— 

"The public, the public! how many fools does it take 
to make a public ! " — Chamfort, Maxims. 

1403 Public, The— 

"The public have neither shame nor gratitude." 

Hazlitt, Characteristics, 

(/404 Punishment — 

" Don't let us rejoice in punishment even when the hand 536 
of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor 898 
wretches just saved from shipwreck ; can we feel any- 1467 
thing but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger 1557 
swallowed by the waves ? " 

George Eliot, Janefs Repentance. 

1405 Punishment in Anger— 

" Punishment is unto children as physic, and would any 
man endure a physician that were angry and wroth 
against his patient?" — Montaigne, Essays. 

1406 Puns— 

" People who make puns are like wanton boys that put 
coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves 
and other children, but their little trick may upset a 
freight of conversation for the sake of a battered witti- 
cism." — Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. 

1407 Puritans, The— 

"The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave 
pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the 
spectators." — Macaulay, History of England. 

1408 Purpose— 

" Purpose is but the slave to memory." 

Shakespeare, Ha??ilet. 

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1409 Quarrel, A Just— also 

" Thrice is he armed that has his quarrel just." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. 

1410 Quarrels — 

" Quarrels would not last long" if the fault was only on 740 
one side." — La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. 

1411 Quarrels, Interposing in — 

" Those who in quarrels interpose, 
Must often wipe a bloody nose." — Gay, Fables. 

1412 Queen, A— 

"A queen in jest, only to fill the scene." 

Shakespeare, Richard III. 

1413 Quickness — 

" Quickness is among the least of the mind's properties, 210 
and belongs to her in almost her lowest state : nay it doth 1632 
not abandon her when she is driven from her home, when 
she is wandering and insane." 

Landor, Imaginary Conversations. 

1414 Rabble, The Gentlemanly — 

" Neither in the name of the multitude do I onely include 257 
the base and minor sort of people ; there is a rabble even 
amongst the gentry, a sort of plebeian heads, whose fancy 
moves with the same wheel as these ; men in the same 
level with mechanics, though their fortunes do somewhat 
gild their infirmities, and their purses compound for their 
follies." — Browne, Religio Medici. 

1415 Rage— 

" In rage, deaf as the sea, hasty as fire." 

Shakespeare, Richard II. 

1416 Rancour— 

" Rancour will out." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. 

1417 Rank— 

" 'Tis from high life, high characters are drawn ; Worth 

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; 1359 

A judge is just, a chanc'lor juster still ; 1366 

A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; 
Wise, if a minister ; but, if a king, 

More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything." 

Pope, Moral Essays. 
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1418 Rank— also 

" The rank is but the guinea stamp ; 353 

The man's the gowd for a' that." 

Burns, A Man's a Man For A' That. 

1419 Reading— 

" Reading is thinking with some one else's head instead 162 
of one's own." — Schopenhauer, Art of Literature, 943 

945 

1420 Reading — 

" He that I am reading seems always to have the most 
force." — Montaigne, Essays. 

1421 Reading— 

"A perfect judge will read each work of wit 323 

With the same spirit that its author writ." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

1422 Realism— 

" The realist, if he is an artist, will endeavour not to 295 
show us a commonplace photograph of life, but to give us 
a presentmert of it which shall be more complete, more 
striking, more cogent than reality itself." 

Guy de Maupassant, Preface to Pierre etjean. 

1423 Reason— 

" What is a man, 809 

If his chief good and market of his time I0 74 

Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. 
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, 
Looking before and after, gave us not 
That capability and god-like reason 
To fust in us unused." — Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1424 Reason— 

" Many are destined to reason wrongly ; others not to 292 
reason at all ; and others to persecute those who do 663 
reason." — Voltaire. 1306 

1425 Reason— 

" Words clothed in reason's garb." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

1426 Reason and Soul— 

11 The feast of reason and the flow of soul." 

Pope, Imitations of Horace* 

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1427 Reason, An Idle — also 

" An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones 
you gave before." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1428 Reasons— 

" Baited with reasons not implausible.' 

Milton, Comus* 

1429 Reasons — 

"We are more easily persuaded, in general, by the 
reasons we ourselves discover, than by those which have 
been suggested to us by others." — Pascal. 

1430 Rebellion— 

" Noble rebellion lifts a common load ; 1543 

But what is he who flings his own load off 1620 

And leaves his fellows toiling ? " 

George Eliot, Armgart. 

1431 Recognition— 

"Asa rule, people discover a man to be worth listening 347 
to only after he is gone ; their hear, hear ! resounds when 349 
the orator has left the platform." 

Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

1432 Recognition— 

" He who first praises a book becomingly, is next in 74 
merit to the author." — LANDOR, Imaginary Conversations. 1373 

M33 Recreation— 

" The bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can 926 
human nature subsist without recreation." — Cervantes. 

1434 Reflection, A Soul Without— 

11 A soul without reflection, like a pile 863 

Without inhabitants, to ruin runs." 

Young, Night Thoughts. 

1435 Reign, To— 

"To reign is worth ambition, though in hell." 48 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

1436 Religion — 

" The religion which is to guide and fulfil the present Aut £° r ^ 
and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual." forLity 

Emerson, Worship. 1678 

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1437 Religion— ai sa 

" Religion ! What treasure untold 
Resides in that heavenly word ! 
More precious than silver and gold, 
Or all that this earth can afford." 
CoWPER, Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, 

1438 Religion— 

" We have just enough religion to make us hate, but Secti 
not enough to make us love one another." 751 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 1266 

1439 Religion— 

" Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and 
requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

1440 Religion— 

" Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. 1443 
It alone will gentilize if unmixed with cant." 

Coleridge, Table Talk, 

1441 Religion— 

" Malevole: W T hat religion will you be of now ? — Bilioso : 
Of the duke's religion when I know what it is." 

Marston, The Malcontent, 

144a Religion— 

" What thy religion ? those thou namest — none ? 3I 8 

None why — because I have religion." 

Schiller, My Belief, 

1443 Religion— 

" In religion, as in friendship, they who profess most, 
are ever the least sincere." — Sheridan. 



800 
1321 



1444 Religion— 

" How many evils has religion wrought ! " 1307 

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura. 

1445 Religion and Breeding— 

"Talk about it as much as you like — one's breeding 1440 
shows itself nowhere more than in his religion." 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 
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1446 Religions— a i so 

" There is nothing wanting to make all rational and Sects 
disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that 3*8 
they should talk together every day." 

Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects* 

1447 Religions— 

" Man is certainly stark mad ; he cannot make a worm, 677 
and yet he will be making gods by dozens." 

Montaigne, Essays. 

1448 Religious Discussion— 

" I remember no discussion on religion in which religion 1266 
was not a sufferer by it, if mutual forbearance, and belief 
in another's good motives and intentions, are (as I must 
always think they are) its proper and necessary appur- 
tenances." — LANDOR, Imaginary Conversations, 

1449 Religious Ideas— 

" Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which once 
set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instru- 
ments, some of them wofully coarse, feeble or out of tune, 
until people are in danger of crying out that the melody 
itself is detestable." — George Eliot, Janet's Repentance. 

1450 Remembrance— 

" Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, K m- 

S wells at my breast, and turns the past to pain." or Y 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village 

1451 Remembrance— 

" Thou busy power, Remembrance, cease I " 

Burns, The Lament. 
145a Repentance— 

" The repentance which cuts off all moorings to evils, 
demands something more than selfish fear." 

George Eliot, Romola. 
1453 Reproach— 

" Is there no way to bring home a wandering sheep 762 
but by worrying him to death ? " — Fuller. ^04 

X454 Reproof— 

" A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an 
hundred stripes into a fool." — Book of Proverbs* 
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1455 Reproof— also 

" Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

1456 Reputation— 

" Seeking the bubble reputation 
E'en in the cannon's mouth." 

Shakespeare, As You Like It. 

1457 Reputation— 

" A good name is better than precious ointment." 778 

Book of Ecclesiastes. 

1458 Reputation— 

" That sort of reputation which precedes performance — 779 
often the larger part of a man's fame." 

George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

1459 Resignation— 

" But resignation knows Hope, 

To soothe irreparable woes, Sorrow, 

And Fate's stern will abide." 

Horace, Odes (French). 

1460 Resignation— 

" To bear is to conquer our fate." 

Campbell, On a Scene in Argyleshire. 

1461 Respect — 

" To be capable of respect is, in these days, almost as 35> 547 
rare as to be worthy of it." — Joubert, Thoughts. 1729 

1462 Reticence— 

" Besides (to say truth) nakedness is uncomely, as well Silence 
in mind as body ; and it addeth no small reverence to 308 
men's manners and actions, if they be not altogether open." 745 

Bacon, Essays. 

1463 Reticence— 

" Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than 1789 
their folly." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1464 Reticence— 

" There is no use for any man's taking up his abode in a 746 
house built of glass. A man always is to be himself the 
judge how much of his mind he will show to other men ; 
even tQ those he would have work along with him." 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes* 
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1465 Retirement— a / so 

" Blessed retirement, friend to life's decline." 

Goldsmith, The Deseted Village. 

1466 Retreat, A — 

" In all the trade of war no feat 
Is nobler than a brave retreat." 

Butler, Hudibras. 

1467 Retribution— 

" Retribution may come from any voice : the hardest, Pur/ish- 
cruelest, most imbruted urchin at the street-corner can ^V*' 
inflict it : surely help and pity are rarer things — more , n " n f * 
needful for the righteous to bestow." Faults, 

George Eliot, Adam Bede. Sin » e *<5 

1468 Revenge — 

" Sweet is revenge — especially to women." I73 y 

Byron, Don Juan. 

1469 Revenge— 

" Certainly in taking revenge a man is but even with 590 
his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior: for it is 
a prince's part to pardon." — BACON, Essays. 

1470 Revenge in Love— 

" Revenge against the object of our love is madness. 
No one would kill the woman he loves, but that he thinks 
he can bring her to life afterwards. Her death seems to 
him as momentary as his own rash act." 

Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

1471 Revolutions, The Causes of— 

" Follies committed by the sensible, extravagances 
uttered by the clever, crimes perpetrated by the good — 
there is what makes revolutions." — De Bonald. 



1847 



1472 Rhetoric— 

" Sweet smoke of rhetoric." 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost. 

1473 Riches— 

" Riches, one may say, are like sea- water ; the more Mercy, 
you drink, the thirstier you become." r^15 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. ~£ 1 

1474 Riches— 

11 Riches certainly make themselves wings." 

Book of Proverbs. 
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1475 Ridicule— also 

"The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing Con- 
to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification tem Pt 
of little ungenerous tempers." — Addison, The Spectator. 

1476 Ridicule— 

" Some persons can do nothing but ridicule others." 

Hazlitt, Characteristics, 

1477 Ridicule— 

" To make that ridiculous which is not so, is in some 
measure to make bad what is good." — Joubert, Thoughts. 

1478 Ridicule — 

"Ridicule often parries resentment, but resentment 
never yet parried ridicule." 

L AN DOR, Imaginary Conversations. 

1479 Ridicule— 

"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the 
stars down." — George Eliot, Romola. 

1480 Ridiculous, The— 

" The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, 797 

the sensible man hardly anything." 935 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 950 

1481 Rivals in Love— 

" Of all the torments, all the cares, 
With which our lives are curst : 
Of all the plagues a lover bears, 
Sure rivals are the worst." — Walsh, Song. 

1482 Routine— 

"That beneficent harness of routine which enables 
silly men to live respectably and unhappy men to live 
calmly." — George Eliot, Middlemarch. 

1483 Rudeness— 

" Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally 5 
eclipses intellect." — Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 861 

1484 Ruin- 

Ruin's wheel has driven o'er me ; 

Nor dare my fate a hope attend ; 
The wide world is all before me — 
But a world without a friend ! " 

Burns, Strathallaris Lament. 
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1485 Ruin, A-— also 

" The ruin speaks, that some time 
It was a worthy building." 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline. 

1486 Rule— 

" It is not the intelligent man who rules, but intelligence ; 
not the wise man, but wisdom." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims* 

1487 Rules — 

" The fence of rules is for the purblind crowd ; 94I 

They walk by averaged precepts : sovereign men, I3I2 
Seeing by God's light, see the general I34 7 

By seeing all the special — own no rule 
But their full vision of the moment's worth." 

George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy. 

1488 Rupture— 

" It is a rupture 
That you may easily heal." 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. 

1489 Sacrifices, Small— 

"We can offer up much in the large, but to make* 
sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to." 

Goethe. 

1490 Safety— 

" Best safety lies in fear." 7g 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1491 Salvation— 

" The number of those who pretend unto salvation, and Sects, 
those infinite swarms who think to pass through the eye Creeds, 
of this needle, have much amazed me." etc * 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

1492 Satire— 

" Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet 
To run amok, and tilt at all I meet.' 

Pope, Satires and Epistles. 

1493 Satire— 

" Satire is a dwarf which stands upon the shoulders of 1475 
the giant, Ill-Nature."— Lytton. 1570 

1494 Satisfied— 

11 He is well paid that is well satisfied." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice* 
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1495 Scandal — also 

" Nothing travels more swiftly than scandal." 

Latin Proverb, 

1496 Scandal— 

" There is nothing like taking scandal by the beard, 
and treating the opinion of the world with heroic indiffer- 
ence." — Le Sage, Gil Bias, 

1497 Scandal— 

" Ah ! many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has 187 
done less mischief than these utterers of forged tales, 
coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation." 

Sheridan, School for Scandal. 
<498 Scholars — 

" The world's great men have not commonly been great Learn- 
scholars, nor its great scholars, great men." m s> etc 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. 

1499 School, A — 

" A school may be regarded as a single individual who 
talks to himself for a hundred years, and finds an extra- 
ordinary pleasure in his own being, however foolish he 
may be." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1500 School— 

" School itself is in reality only the preparatory school 
of life." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1501 Science — 

" Trace Science then, with Modesty thy guide." 

Pope, Essay on Man. 

1502 Scold, A — 

" I know she is an irksome brawling scold." 1830 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew. 

1503 Screams — 

11 Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, 
And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. 
Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, 
When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last 
Or when rich china vessels fall'n from high, 
In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! " 

Pope, Rape of the Lock. 

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1504 Scruples, Rigid— <*ko 

" Scruples too rigid are nothing else but concealed 
pride." — Goethe. 

1505 Sea, The — 

14 The surgy murmurs of the lonely sea." 

Keats, Endymion, 

1506 Sea, Those Drowned at — 

" Peace be to those whose graves are made 
Beneath the bright and silver sea ! 
Peace that their relics there were laid, 
With no vain pride and pageantry." 

Longfellow, The Sea-Diver. 

1507 Seas, The — 

" The low lispings of the silvery seas." 

P. J. Bailey. 

1508 Seas, The— 

11 This way and that the leaden seas were hurled, 
Moved by no wind, but by some unseen power." 

William Morris. 

1509 Seasons, The — 

" The flowery Spring leads sunny Summer, 
And yellow Autumn presses near, 
Then in his turn comes gloomy Winter, 
Till smiling Spring again appear. 
Thus seasons dancing, life advancing, 
Old Time and Nature their changes tell." 

Burns, Bonnie Bell. 

1510 Scepticism— 

" Is the pillow of scepticism so soft to genius as to 4*7 
justify the conclusion that it is from egotism only that at 
times it rests its fevered brow thereon ? " 

Mazzini, Byron and Goethe, 

1511 Scheming— 

" Perfect scheming demands omniscience." 

George Eliot, Ro??iola. 

1512 Secrecy— 

" This business asketh silent secrecy." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry VL 
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1513 Secret, Betraying Part of a — also 

" He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the 
rest no longer in his power." — Richter, Titan. 

514 Secret, Keeping a— 

" Nothing is so oppressive as a secret : it is difficult for 853 
ladies to keep it long ; and I know even in this matter a 
good number of men who are women." 

La Fontaine, Fables. 

1515 Secrets, Betraying— 

" To tell our own secrets is often folly ; to communicate 
those of others is treachery." — Johnson. 

1516 Secrets, Keeping— 

"A man can keep the secret of another better than his Confid- 
own ; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her own better than ences. 
that of another." — La Bruyere, Characters. 

1517 Sect — 

" Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave 
A paradise for a sect." — Keats, Hyperion. 

1518 Sectarianism— 

" Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism. 1708 

De Quincey. 

1519 Sects, The— Faith, 

11 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, Religion, 

But looks through nature up to nature's God." 7g2 

Pope, Essay on Man. \^ 2 

1520 Self, Knowledge of— 

" No one who has not got a complete knowledge of 854 
himself, will ever have a true understanding of another." 921, 922 

Novalis. 

1521 Self, Knowledge of— 

" How can a man learn to know himself? Never by 
meditating, but by doing. Endeavour to do thy duty, and 
thou wilt at once know what in thee lies." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1522 Self, Speaking of — 

" The more you speak of self, the more you are likely to 
lie. "— Zimmermann. 

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1523 Selfishness— 2 / S o 

" But hoary-headed Selfishness has felt 

Its death-blow, and is tottering" to the grave. 
A brighter morn awaits the human day ; 
When every transfer of earth's natural gifts 
Shall be a commerce of good words and works, 
When poverty and wealth, the thirst of fame, 
The fear of infamy, disease and woe, 
War with its million horrors, and fierce hell, 
Shall live but in the memory of Time, 
Who, like a penitent libertine, shall start, 
Look back and shudder at his younger days." 

Shelley, Queen Mab. 

1524 Self-Made Man, The— 

" Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a 
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be 
made at all." — Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. 

X525 Self- Praise— 

" Even when you are fully justified in praising yourself, ^ 
you should never be seduced into doing so. For vanity is 
so very common, and merit so very uncommon, that even 
if a man appears to be praising himself, though very 
indirectly, people will be ready to lay a hundred to one 
that he is talking out of pure vanity, and that he has not 
sense enough to see what a fool he is making of himself." 
Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

1526 Self- Reliance— 

" How happy is he bom and taught 546 

That serveth not another's will, 
Whose armour is his honest thought, 
And simple truth his utmost skill." 

Wotton, Character of a Happy Life. 
152? Sense — 

u But small the bliss that sense alone bestows." 393 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 

1528 Sensibility and Insensibility— 

"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness, too much 
insensibility creates crime." — Talleyrand. 

1529 Sensuality— 

" No man is free who is a slave to the flesh." 

Seneca, Epistles. 
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1530 Services of the Proud, The— also 

" Proud characters love those to whom they do a 1240 
service." — Joubert, Thoughts, 

1531 Serving— 

" Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

1532 Shades— 

" . • . gloomy shades, sequestered deep, 
Where no man went." — Keats, Endymion. 

1533 Shame — 

" I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder 133 
to see them not ashamed." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

1534 Sick Man, The— 

" For the sick man swells in the sole contemplation uf 
his single sufferings, till he becomes a Tityus to himself." 

Lamb, Last Essays of Elia. 
»535 Sight, The Sense of— 

"The sight is the finest of the senses. The other four 
reach us only through the organs of contact ; we hear, 
feel, smell, and touch everything - by means of contact \ 
but the sense of sight stands far higher, is refined above 
the material, and approaches the faculty of the mind 
itself." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

x53« Silence— 

" A worthy man should imitate the weather, 5 5^ 

That sings in tempests ; and being clear is silent." 
George Chapman, Bussy ctAmbois. 
*537 Silence— 

" He that hath knowledge spare th his words." 738 

Book of Pioverbs. 1638 
*5s8 Silence— 

" For a man to refrain even from good words, and to 
hold peace, it is commendable ; but for a multitude, it is 
great mastery." — Lamb, Essays of Elia. 

1539 Silence— 

" Speech is great ; but Silence is greater." 1464 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 
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1540 Silence — also 

"A habit of silence in conversation is pleasing", and Reti- 
wins applause when it is known that the silent one could cence 
talk, and talk to the purpose, if he chose." 746 

Leopardi, Thoughts. x 5 8 5 

1541 Silence— 

" Expressive silence." — Thomson, A Hymn. 

1542 Silence— 

" Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet 
peace." — Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. 

1543 Silence in Suffering— 

u Silence is frequently a duty when suffering is only 1430 
personal ; but it is an error and a fault when the 1620 
suffering is that of millions." 

MAZZINI, Writings of Thomas Carlyle. 

1544 Silent Men— 

" Ah yes, I will say again: The great silent men! 
Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words 
with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to 
reflect on the great Empire of Silence. The noble silent 
men, scattered here and there, each in his department, 
silently thinking, silently working ; whom no Morning 
Newspaper makes mention of. They are the salt of the 
Earth. A country that has none or few of these is in a 
bad way." — Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 

1545 Silent People— 

" The most silent people are generally those who think 
most highly of themselves. They fancy themselves 
superior to every one else ; and not being sure of making 
good their secret pretensions, decline entering the lists 
altogether. " — H AZLITT, Characteristics. 

1546 Simplicity— 

" Simplicity has always been held to be a mark of 1693 
truth ; it is also a mark of genius." 

Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

1547 Simplicity— 

" And, as the greatest only are, 
In his simplicity sublime." 
Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. 
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1548 Simplicity— also 

" If thou canst no charm disclose 77a 

In the simplest bud that blows ; 1689 

Go, forsake thy plain and fold ; 
Join the crowd and toil for gold." 

Shenstone, On the Back of a Gothic Seat. 

1549 Simplicity— 

" To clothe the fiery thought 
In simple words succeeds, 
For still the craft of genius is 
To mask a king in weeds." 

Emerson, Quatrains. 

1550 Simplicity— 

"the politic 
And cunning statesman, that believes he fathoms 
The counsels of all kingdoms on the earth, 
Is by simplicity oft over-reached." 

M assinger, New Way to Pay Old Debts. 

1551 Simplicity— 

" O ! I do love thee, meek Simplicity ! " 

Coleridge, Sonnets. 

1552 Simplicity— 

" Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound 
thought. " — H AZLITT, Characteristics. 

1553 Sin— 

"A man may do wrong, and his will may rise clear out 1467 
of it, though he can't get his life clear. That's a bad 
punishment." — George Eliot, Middlemarch. Judg- 

ment, 

1554 Sin— Cbrity, 

"The greater part of mankind are angry with the Forgive 
sinner, and not with the sin." — Seneca, De Ira. ness 

1404 

1555 Sin— 

" What we call sin, 13* 

I could believe a painful opening out 
Of paths for ampler virtue." 

Arthur Hugh Clough, In Venice. 

1556 Sin— 

" He that falls into sin is a man ; that grieves at it is a 
saint ; that boasteth of it is a devil." 

Fuller, Holy and Profane States. 
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1557 Sin, Exposing— also 

11 I hold it a crime to expose a man's sin unless I'm 898 
clear it must be done to save the innocent." 1404 

George Eliot, Middle >/: arch. 

1558 Singing— 

" How angel-like he s'ngs." 1744 

Shakespeare, Cymbelint. 

1559 Sins — 

" Compound for sins they are inclined to, 1174 

By damning those they have no mind to." 1732 

Butler, Hudibras. 

1560 Sins— Fault, 

" We have all our secret sins, and if we knew ourselves, Judg- 

we should not judge each other harshly." Evil** 

George Eliot, Mr. GilfiVs Love Story. Mercy 

269 

1561 Sister, A— 

" For there is no friend like a sister 
In calm or stormy weather ; 
To cheer one on the tedious way, 
To fetch one if one goes astray, 
To lift one if one totters down, 
To strengthen whilst one stands." 

Christina G. Rossetti, Goblin Market. 

1562 Slander — 

" The slander of some people is as great a recommend- 536 
ation as the praise of others." — Fielding, Tom Jones. 1376 

1563 Slandered, The— 

11 It often happens that those are the best people whose 
characters have been most injured by slanderers : as we 
usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds 
have been picking at." 

Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1564 Slanderer, The— 

" Vice has not, I believe, a more abject slave ; society 536 
produces not a more odious vermin ; nor can the devil 
receive a guest more worthy of him, nor possibly more 
welcome to him than a slanderer." — Fielding, Tom Jones, 
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1365 Slavery— a i S9 

" i Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery,' said I, 
1 still thou art a bitter draught ; and though thousands in 
all ages have been made to drink thee, thou art no less 
bitter on that account.' " — Sterne, Sentimental Journey, 

1566 Sleep — 

" Oh Sleep ! it is a gentle thing, 
Beloved from pole to pole." 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner* 

1567 Sleep— 

" Blessings light on him who first invented sleep." 

Cervantes, Don Quixote. 

1568 Sleep— 

" Care-charmer Sleep ! sweet ease in restless misery ! 
The captive's liberty, and his freedom's song ! 
Balm of the bruised heart ! man's chief felicity ! 
Brother of quiet Death, when Life is too, too long." 
Bartholomew Griffin, Fidessa. 

1569 Sleep— 

"Come, Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, 
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, 
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, 
The indifferent judge between the high and low." 

Sidney, Sonnets, 

1570 Sleep— 

" Tired nature's sweet restorer, — balmy sleep ! 
He, like the world, his ready visit pays 
Where fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes — 
Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, 
And lights on lids unsullied by a tear." 

Young, Night Thoughts, 

1571 Sleep— 

" The halcyon sleep will never build his nest 
In any stormy breast." 

Cowley, Paraphrase of Horace *s Odes, 

1572 Sleep— 

" . . . the innocent sleep, 
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast." — Shakespeare, Macbeth 
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1573 Smell— a i so 

" There was the rankest compound of villainous smell 
that ever offended nostril." 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor. 

1574 Smile— 

"With the smile that was child-like and bland." 

Bret Harte, Truthful fames, 

1575 Smiles — 

" Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way." 

Pope, Satires and Epistles. 

1576 Sneer, A— 

" Who can refute a sneer?" Con- 

Paley, Moral Philosophy. tem P l 

1577 Sneering— I493 

" The most insignificant people are the most apt to 
sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals, and have 
no hope of rising in their own esteem but by lowering 
their neighbours. The severest critics are always those 
who have either never attempted, or who have failed in 
original composition."— Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

1578 Sociability and Intellect— 

" The more a man has in himself, the less he will want Solitude 
from other people, the less, indeed, other people can be 867 
to him. That is why a high degree of intellect tends to 
make a man unsocial." 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

1579 Society— 

" Society is a more level surface than we imagine. 836 
Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as 
there are few giants or dwarfs." 

Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

1580 Society— 

" Society is now one polished horde, 

Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored." 

Byron, Don Juan. 

1581 Society— 

"Society, in the philosophical sense of the word, is 
almost the contrary of what it is in the common accepta- 
tion." — Landor, Imaginary Conversations. 
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1582 Society— also 

" If you live among" men, the heart must either break 1135 
or turn to brass." — Chamfort, Maxims. 1858 

1583 Society— 

" It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of 
others." — Montaigne, Essays. 

1584 Society — 

" Society is in this respect like a fire — the wise man 
warming himself at a proper distance from it ; not coming 
too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs 
away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that 
the fire burns. " — Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

1585 Society, The Best— 

" Of the best society it used to be said : its conversation 153J 
affords instruction, whilst its silence imparts culture." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1586 Solitude— 

"Think me not unkind and rude 

That I walk alone in grove and glen, 
I go to the god of the wood, 
To fetch his word to men." 

Emerson, The Apology. 

1587 Solitude— 

"What one man can be to another is not a very great 605 
deal ; in the end every one stands alone, and the important 736 
thing is who it is that stands alone ? " I32 6 

Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 

1588 Solitude — 

" For solitude is sometimes best society, 
And short retirement urges sweet return." 

Milton, Paradise Lost 

1589 Solitude— 

"Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far 855 
it extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces are 1578 
but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, 
where there is no love." — Bacon, Essays. 

1590 Solitude— 

"That inward eye I00 8 

Which is the bliss of solitude." X 8 72 

Wordsworth, / Wandered Lonely. 
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1591 Solitude— a/w 

" There are some solitary wretches who seem to have 
left the rest of mankind, only as Eve left Adam, to meet 
the devil in private. " — Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

1592 Solitude— 

" And he that can enlighten his soul with the flame of a 
lively faith and hope, really and constantly, in his solitari- 
ness doth build unto himself a voluptuous and delicious 
life, far surmounting- all other lives." 

Montaigne, Essays. 

1593 Solitude— 

" Why should we faint and fear to live alone, 
Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, 
Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, • 
Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh ? " 

Keble, Christian Year. 

1594 Solitude— 

" All society necessarily involves, as the first condition 1610 
of its existence, mutual accommodation and restraint 
upon the part of its members. This means that the larger 
it is, the more insipid will be its tone. A man can be him- 
self only so long as he is alone ; and if he does not love 
solitude, he will not love freedom ; for it is only when he 
is alone that he is really free." 

Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims. 

1595 Solitude— 

" Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is Society 
wholesome for the character." 

Lowell, Among My Books. 

1596 Solitude— 

" In solitude, where we are least alone." 

Byron, Childe Harold. 

1597 Sorrow — 

" Joy's recollection is no longer joy ; 
But sorrow's memory is sorrow still." 

Byron, Marino Faliero. 

1598 Sorrow— 

" The path of sorrow, and that path alone, 
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown." 

Cowper, To an Afflicted Protestant Lady. 
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1599 Sorrow— als§ 

" This is truth the poet sings, 888 

That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering- 1096 

happier things." — Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 1103 

1600 Sorrow — 

"Come then, Sorrow ! 421 

Sweetest Sorrow ! 1097 

Like an own babe I nurse thee on my breast : 1115 

I thought to leave thee, 
And deceive thee, 
But now of all the world I love thee best." 

Keats, Endymion. 

1601 Sorrow — 

" Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your 
anguish — 
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal." 

Moore, Come, Ye Disconsolate. 

1602 Sorrow— 

" The brightest mind, when sorrow sweeps across, 599 

Becomes the gloomiest ; so the stream, that ran 
Clear as the light of heaven ere autumn closed, 
When wintry storm and snow and sleet descend, 
Is darker than the mountain or the moor." 

Landor, Miscellaneous Poems. 

1603 Sorrow — 

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, 613 

But in battalions." — Shakespeare, Hamlet. 1812 

1813 

1604 Speaking Clearly— 

" Speak clearly if you speak at all ; 

Carve every word before you let it fall." 

Holmes, Urania. 

1605 Speaking Judges the Speaker— 

" A man cannot speak but he judges himself. W T ith his eg 
will, or against his will, he draws his portrait to the eye of 205 
his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on 
him who utters it." — Emerson, Co??ipensation. 

1606 Sportiveness— 

" He who never relapses into sportiveness is a weari- 559 
some companion, but beware of him that jests at every- 
thing." — Southey, Colloquies on Society, 

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1607 Stare, A— a / s0 

" Gorgonized me from head to foot 
With a stony British stare." — Tennyson, Maud. 

1608 Statesman — 

"Statesmen get drunk on the fumes of the wine they 
pour out, and their own falsehood deceives them. " 

Joubert, Thoughts. 

1609 Strength — 

" But what is strength without a double share Thought, 

Of wisdom ? Vast, unwieldy, burdensome, M,nd 

Proudly secure, yet liable to fall 86 3 

By weakest subtleties ; not made to rule, x 434 
But to subserve where wisdom bears command." 

Milton, Samson Agonistes. 

1610 Strength— 

" When is man strong until he feels alone ? " Loneli- 

Browning, Colombe's Building. "ess 

1611 Studious, The— I594 

" I do believe, Aspasia, that studious men, who look so 
quiet, are the most restless men in existence." 

Landor, Pericles and Aspasia. 

1612 Stupidity— i;o7 

" Against stupidity the very gods 
Themselves contend in vain." 

Schiller, Maid of Orleans. 

1613 Stupidity, Intolerance of— 

" Excessive anger against human stupidity is itself one 
of the most provoking of all forms of stupidity." 

Von Radowitz. 

1614 Style, Literary— 

" Style is the dress of thoughts." 

Chesterfield, Letters. 

1615 Style, Literary— 

" Style is the physiognomy of the mind, and a safer 
index to character than the face." 

Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

1616 SUCCeSS— ReTta- 

" Success is man's god."— ^Eschylus, Choephori. tion, U «t«- 

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1617 Success — also 

" He who feels no love must learn to flatter ; otherwise 555 
he will not succeed. " —Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1618 Success— 

" There are but two ways of rising in the world ; either 
by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of 
others." — La Bruyere, Characters, 

1619 Success — 

" Success serves men as a pedestal ; it makes them 
look larger, if reflection does not measure them. " 

Joubert, Thoughts. 

1620 Suffering— 

" Suffer in silence, do you say? No, cry aloud upon 1430 
the housetops, sound the tocsin, raise the alarm at all 1543 
risks, for it is not alone your house that is on fire ; but 
that of your neighbours, that of every one." 

Mazzini, Writings of Thomas Carlyle. 

1621 Superfluous, The— 

"The superfluous, a very necessary thing." 

Voltaire, Le Mondain. 

1622 Superiority — 

"Against the superiority of another there is no remedy 
but love." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1623 Sufferance— 

"Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 

1624 Suspense, Living in— 

"It is a miserable thing to live in suspense ; it is the 
life of a spider." — Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1625 Sympathetic Mind, The— 

"And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind 3x6 

Exults in all the good of all mankind." 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 

1626 Sympathy— 

11 Does the sparrow know how the stork feels ? " 713 

Goethe, Reflectunis and Maxims. 
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i§2 7 Sympathy— a / sa 

" Homage to holy sympathy, 121 

Ye dwellers in our mighty ring 1 ; 225 

Up to your star-pavilions — she 905 

Leads to the Unknown King ! " 

Schiller, Hymn to Joy. 

1628 Sympathy— 

" Till sympathy contract a kindred pain, 620 

Pierced with the woes that she laments in vain." 626 

Cowper, Retirement. 

1629 Sympathy — 

" If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself." 1148 

Horace, Ars Poetica. 

1630 Sympathy— 

" Thine is a grief, the depth of which another 
May never know ; 
Yet, o'er the waters, oh, my stricken brother ! 

To thee I go. 
I lean my heart unto thee, sadly folding 

Thy hand in mine ; 
With even the weakness of my soul upholding 
The strength of thine." 

Whittier, To A Friend. 

1631 Sympathy— 

"It is an act within the power of charity, to translate 
a passion out of one breast into another, and to divide 
a sorrow almost out of itself ; for an affliction, like a dimen- 
sion, may be so divided, as if not indivisible, at least to 
become insensible." — Browne, Religio Medici. 

1632 Talent and Business — 

" A man of wit is not incapable of business, but above 210 
it. A sprightly generous horse is able to carry a pack- ^3 
saddle as well as an ass ; but he is too good to be put to 
the drudgery." — Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1633 Talents, Great— 

" Great talents are the finest means of conciliation." 1716 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1634 Talk— 

" People will talk — there's no preventing it." 

Sheridan, School for Scandal, 
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i*85 Talkative Lady, A— a lso 

"I know a lady that loves talking so incessantly, she 693 

won't give an echo fair play ; she has that everlasting 1845 

rotation of tongue, that an echo must wait till she dies, 849 

before it can catch her last words." 

Congreve, The Way of the World. 
£636 Talking— 

" One learns taciturnity best among people w T ho have 
none, and loquacity among the taciturn." 

RlCHTER, Hesperus. 

1637 Talking— 

" A fool's voice is known by multitude of words." 301 

Book of £ celesta stes. 

1638 Talking Much— 

" Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things, Silence 
things he did not mean to say ; as no person plays much 738 
without striking a false note sometimes." 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast Table. 

1639 Taste— 

" Hard is his lot that, here by Fortune placed, 
Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste ; 
With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, 
And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day.' 

Johnson, Prologue at Drury Lane. 

£640 Taste — 

" Taste is the literary conscience of the soul." 821 

Joubert, Thoughts. 

1641 Tattlers— 

" Beware of tattlers ; keep your ear Scandal, 

Close stopt against the tales they bear, — Slander, 

Fruits of their own invention ; e c l 

The separation of chief friends 
Is what their kindness most intends ; 
Their sport is your dissension." 

Cowper, On Friendship. 

X642 Tears — 

" Oh ! too convincing — dangerously dear — 1770 

In woman's eye the unanswerable tear ! 
That weapon of her weakness she can wield, 
To save, subdue — at once her spear and shield." 

Byron, The Corsair. 
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1643 Tears — also 

" Tears, such as angels weep." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

1644 Tears— 

" Some tears belong* to us because we are unfortunate ; 
others because we are human ; many because we are 
mortal. But most are caused by our being" unwise. It is 
these last only that of necessity produce more." 

Leigh Hunt, Essays, 

1645 Tears— 

" The big" round tears 
Cours'd one another down his innocent nose 
In piteous chase." 

Shakespeare, As You Like Lt. 

1646 Tediousness— 

"A tedious person is one a man would leap a steeple 163 
from, gallop down any steep hill to avoid him ; forsake i& 
his meat, sleep, nature itself, with all her benefits, to shun 
him." — Ben Jonson, Discoveries, 

1647 Temptation — 

" No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has 
been well tempted." — George Eliot. 

164S Temptations— 

" As every climate has its peculiar diseases, so every 
walk of life has its peculiar temptations." 

Macaulay, Essays. 

1649 Thinkers, Deep— 

" Men who think deeply and earnestly are placed in an Public, 
awkward position with regard to the public." etc - 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. Il8x 

1650 Thought— 

" for there is nothing- either g-ood or bad, but 483 

thinking makes it so." — Shakespeare, Hamlet, 

1651 Thought— 

" Can it be maintained that a man thinks only when he 
cannot think out that of which he is thinking ? " 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 
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1652 Thought— also 

" Thought 863 

Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, 
And seizing* some fine thread of verity 
Knows momentary godhead." 

George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy. 

1653 Thought— 

"Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone — " 

Wordsworth, Prelude. 

1654 Thought— 

" And I had dimly shaped my first attempt, 
And many a thought did I build up on thought, 
As the wild bee hangs cell to cell — in vain ; 
For I must still go on ; my mind rests not." 

Browning, Pauline. 

1655 Thought— 

" With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, 
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ' 

Churchill, Epistle to William Hogarth. 

1656 Thought— 

" Everything that is worth thinking has already been 1264 

thought before ; we must only try to think it again." 1689 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 1799 

1657 Thoughtlessness— 

"A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless 
good humour will often make more enemies than the most 
deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and 
strikes with caution and safety." 

Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

1658 Thoughts— 

" Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." 

Wordsworth, Ode on Imitations ef Immortality 

1659 Thoughts— 

" Go, foolish thoughts, and join the throng 
Of myriads gone before ; 
To flutter and flap and flit along 
The airy limbo shore." 

Arthur Hugh Clough, Anemolicu 

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1660 Thoughts— a i so 

11 With thoughts impalpable we clutch men's souls, 
Weaken the joints of armies, make them fly 
Like dust and leaves before the viewless wind. 
Tell me what's mirrored in the tiger's heart, 
I'll rule that too." 

George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy. 

1661 Thoughts, Rejected— 

11 In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected 148 
thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated 1668 
majesty. " — Emerson, Self- Reliance, 

1662 Thrift— 

" Thrift is itself a good income." 

Cicero, Paradoxes* 

1663 Thunder— 

"the thunder 
Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

1664 Time — 

" Time rolls his ceaseless course." 

Scott, Lady of the Lake. 

1665 Time— 

11 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Pleasure 

Old Time is still a-flying ; 
And this same flower that smiles to-day, 
To-morrow will be dying." — Herrick, Song. 

i*§6 Time— 

" Touch us gently, Time ! 

We've not proud nor soaring wings ; 
Our ambition, our conteat, 
Lies in simple things. 
Humble voyagers are We, 
O'er Life's dim unsounded sea, 
Seeking only some calm clime ; — 
Touch us gently ', gentle Time." 

B. W. Procter, A Petition to Time. 
1667 Time— 

"No preacher is listened to but Time, which gives us 
the same train and turn of thought that elder people have 
in vain tried to put into our heads before." 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 
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1668 Time— a lsc 

" Oh ! backward looking" son of Time ! 1223 

The new is old, the old is new — 1251 

The cycle of a change sublime, 
Still sweeping through." 

Whit tier, The Refor??ier. 

1669 Time— 

" It may be strange — yet who would change 23 

Time's course to slower speeding, 1107 

When one by one our friends have gone 1248 

And left our bosoms bleeding? " 

Campbell, The River of Life. 
*7o Titles— 

" It is not titles that reflect honour on men, but men 
that reflect honour on titles." 

Machiavelli, Dei Discorsu 

1671 Tobacco — 

" Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west 
Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest." 

Byron, The Island, 

1672 Tolerance — 

"The responsibility to tolerance lies with those who 
have the wider vision." 

George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, 

1673 Toleration— 

" Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory 
mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to 
affront." — Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1674 To = morrow — 

" To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new." 

Milton, Lycidas. 

1675 Tongue— 

" With our tongue will we prevail." 

Book of Psalms, 

1676 Tooth = ache— 

" Yet is this no charm for the tooth-ache." 

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 

1677 Trade, Two of a— 

" In every age and clime we see, 
Two of a trade can ne'er agree." 

Gay, Fables. 
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1678 Tradition and Reason— a / so 

" We had not walked Author- 

But for Tradition ; we walk evermore l ty ' ?°n- 

To higher paths, by brightening- Reason's lamp." °^? 1 y 
George Eliot, The Spanish Gipsy. 

1679 Travellers— 

" Just as men habitually decry the present and extol the 
past, so the majority of travellers, while they are travel- 
ling, extol their native country, and warmly profess to 
prefer it to the foreign lands they visit. But when they 
return home, they will with equal warmth express a pre- 
ference for those foreign lands." — Leopardi, Thoughts. 

1680 Treason— 

" Treason doth never prosper ; what's the reason ? 
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason." 

Harrington, Epigrams. 

1681 Trivial, The— 

11 To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as 
to the jaundiced they are yellow." 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 

1682 Troubles of Others, The— 

" We have all strength enough to endure the troubles of 1150 
other people." — La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. 1151 

1683 Truth— 

" For truth is precious and divine, 113 

Too rich a pearl for carnal swine." 7 oa 

Butler, Hudibras. 
*684 Truth— 

" The body of all truth dies ; and yet in all, I say, there 
iS a soul which never dies ; which in new and ever-nobler 
embodiment lives immortal as man himself." 

Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes. 

1685 Truth— 

"Truth is a torch, but it is a huge one. This is why 
we all of us try to steal past it with blinking eyes, and 
afraid lest we may be burnt." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

1686 Truth— 

"Truth is always strange — stranger than fiction." 

Byron, Don Juan. 
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1687 Truth— also 

<( We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also 
by the heart."— Pascal, Thoughts, 

1688 Truth— 

"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few." 

Berkeley, Sins. 

1689 Truth— 

" Men are vexed at finding- that the truth is so simple. 1548 
They should bear in mind that they have quite enough to 1656 
do in applying" it to their needs in practice." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 
£690 Truth— 

" Truth crushed to earth shall rise again ; 899 

The eternal years of God are hers ; 
But Error wounded, writhes with pain, 
And dies among his worshippers." 

Bryant, The Battle-Field. 
2691 Truth— 

" Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through." 

George Eliot, Armgart* 
J692 Truth— 

" To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of 91a 
human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all 997 
other virtues." — Locke, Letters. 

1693 Truth— 

" Truth is most beautiful undraped ; and the impression 124a 
it makes is deep in proportion as its expression has been 1546 
simple." — Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

X694 Truth— 

" One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its 66a 
author to be so." — Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age. 

1695 Truth— 

" Truth severe by fairy fiction drest." 

Gray, The Bard. 

1696 Truth— 

"Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the 
cement of all societies." — Dryden. 

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1697 Truth— also 

" Let me tell you, a plain truth may be so worried and 
mauled by fallacies as to get the worst of it." 

George Eliot, Felix Holt, 

1698 Truth— 

"The intellectual adoration of truth, without hope of x 345 
realization, is sterile : there is a larger void in our souls, 
a yearning for more truth than we can realize during our 
short terrestrial existence." 

Mazzini, Writings of Tho?nas Carlyle. 

1699 Truth— 

" At times truth may not seem probable." 506 

Boileau, Art of Poetry. 

1700 Truth— 

1 'And Truth, who wanderest lone and unbefriended, 963 

If thou canst veil thy life-consuming mirror 
Eefore the dazzled eyes of Error, 
Alas for thee ! Image of the Above." 

Shelley, Hellas. 

1701 Truth— 

" What is true by the lamp is not always true by the 
sun." — Joubert, Thoughts. 

1702 Truth — 

"Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too Error 
close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains 1154 
kicked out." — Coleridge, Table Talk. 1224 

1703 Truth— 

"It is the way with half the truth amidst which we 
live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that 
are never born into sound." — George Eliot, Romola. 

1704 Truth, Unpleasant— 

"An honest man speaks truth, though it may give 
offence ; a vain man, in order that it may." 

Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

1705 Truth and Falsehood— 

" Once to every man and nation comes the moment to 
decide, 
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good pr 
evil side." — Lowell, The Present Crisis. 
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1706 Truth and Ridicule— a / so 

" He who brings ridicule to bear against truth, finds in 1479 
his hand a blade without a hilt." 

Landor, Imaginary Conversations, 

1707 Truth, The Defence of— 

" Every man is not a proper champion for Truth, nor fit 
to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity : many from 
the ignorance of these maxims, and an inconsiderate ze?J 
unto Truth, have too rashly charged the troops of Error, 
and remain as trophies unto the enemies of Truth." 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

1708 Truths, Opposition to Intellectual— 

" All those who oppose intellectual truths merely stir up 1518 
the fire ; the cinders fly about and set fire to that which 
else they had not touched." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1709 Truths of the Majority, The— 

1 i What sort of truths do the majority rally round ? Multi- 
Truths that are decrepit with age. When a truth is so t S ( ¥:- 
old as that it's in a fair way to become a lie " (Dr. Stock- u g 1C 
mann). — Ibsen, An Enemy of the People. I °5 

1710 Tutor— 

" Heaven bless thee from a tutor, and discipline come 
not near thee ! " — Shakespeare, Troilus arid Cressidd. 

1711 Types— 

" There is no absolute type on earth." Char- 

Mazzini, Byron and Goethe. acter 

1712 Tyranny- 838j8s6 

" That man is sure to play the tyrant in his own kitchen 901 
who has hardly courage enough to look anybody in the 
face when he steps out of doors." 

Richter, De Quincey's Analects. 

1713 Understanding— 

" There are in the capacities of men three varieties : 
one man will understand a thing by himself ; another so 
far as it is explained to him ; a third, neither of himself 
nor when it is put clearly before him." 

Machiavelli, The Prince. 
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1714 Understanding— also 

" That which we do not understand, we do not possess." 913 
Goethe, Reflections and Maxims, 

1715 Unfeeling, The— 

" Blest, rather curst, with hearts that never feel, 
Kept snug in caskets of close-hammered steel, 
With mouths made only to grin wide and eat, 
And minds that deem derided pain a treat, 
With limbs of British oak, and nerves of wire, 
And wit, that puppet-prompters might inspire, 
Their sovereign nostrum is a clumsy joke 
On pangs enforced with God's severest stroke." 

Cowper, Retirement* 

1716 Unimaginative Man, The— 

"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor 1633 
kind." — Ruskin, Fors Clavigera. 

1717 Universal, Establishing the— 

" To understand that the sky is everywhere bW, it is 
not necessary to have travelled all round the world." 

Goethe, Reflections and Maxims. 

1718 University, The — 

" that's the spoil of youth : 
In the university they're still kept to men 
And ne'er trained up to women's company." 

Middleton, A Chaste Maid in CheapsiJe. 

1719 Use — 

11 How use doth breed a habit in a man ! " Habit 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

1720 Use — 

" For use almost can change the stamp of nature." 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1721 Utility— 

" There is nothing useful but the good, and that which 
it produces ; usefulness is a consequence to be foreseen, 
not a principle to be invoked." 

Mazzini, Writings of Thomas Carlyle. 

172a Vanities— 

11 I can no longer brook thy vanities." 

Shakespeare, i Henry IK 
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1723 Vanity— also 

" Every man has just as much vanity as he wants under- 
standing." — Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 

1724 Vanity— 

" Vanity in women is not invariably, though it is too 
often, the sign of a cold and selfish heart ; in men it always 
is : therefore we ridicule it in society, and in private 
hate it." — Landor, Imaginary Conversations, 

1725 Vanity— 

" All is vanity and vexation of spirit." Life, 

Book of Ecclesiastes. etc> 

1726 Variety— 

" Variety's the very spice of life 
That gives it all its flavour." 

Cowper, The Task. 

1727 Variety— 

" Variety of mere nothing gives more pleasure than 
uniformity of something." — Richter, Levana. 

1728 Variety— 

" Variety alone gives joy ; 
The sweetest meats the soonest cloy." 

Prior, The Turtle and the Sparrow. 

1729 Veneration — 

"Now, mankind is fond of venerating something ; but 1461 
its veneration is generally directed to the wrong object, 
and it remains so directed until posterity comes to set it 
right." — Schopenhauer, Art of Literature, 

1730 Vice— 

" Vice is contagious." — Steele, Essays. 478 

1731 Vice— 

" Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love 1554 
men too little." — Burke. 

1732 Vices of Others, The— 

" Tbe vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within 1559 
ourselves." — Browne, Religio Medici. i 5 6o 

1733 Vicissitude— 

"Vicissitude wheels round the motley crowd, 
The rich grow poor, the poor become purse-proud. 

Cowper, Hope. 
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1734 Victory— a %, 

"Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the 
conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right 
side." — George Eliot, Mill on the Floss. 

1735 Villain— 

" No man becomes a villain all at once." 

Juvenal, Satires. 

1736 Villain— 

"Avaunt, thou hateful villain ! get thee gone." 

Shakespeare, King John. 

1737 Vindictiveness — 

" Nay rather, vindictive persons live the lives of Revenge 
witches, who as they are mischievous, so end they 
unfortunate." — Bacon, Essays, 

1738 Virtue— 

"To be unacquainted with vice is not to know virtue." 

Goldsmith, Essays. 

1739 Virtue— 

"Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set." 125 

Bacon, Essays. 

1740 Virtue— 

"That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is 
scarcely worth the sentinel." 

Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield. 

1741 Virtue and Vice— j ud 

" I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture ment, 
of vice."— Montaigne, Essays. Mercy 

132 

1742 Virtue and Vice— I555 

" But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed." 

Pope, Essay on Man. 

1743 Virtues — 

" I often compare the virtues of good men to your large 
china jars ; they make a fine show, but look into a thou- 
sand of them, and you will find nothing in them but dust 
and cobwebs." — Mandeville, Fable of the Bees. 

1744 Voice, A— 

" Tax not so bad a voice 
To slander music any more than once." 

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 
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1745 Vulgar, The- aho 

" To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, 
is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor." 

Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1746 Vulgarity — 

" Base breedings love base pleasures." 
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Island Princes, 

1747 Vulgarity— 

" False delicacy is real indelicacy. Half-educated men 
employ the most frequent circumlocutions and ambiguities. 
The plain vulgar are not the most vulgar." 

Landor, Imaginary Conversations. 

1748 Vulgarity and Men of Genius— 

"Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the 
company of vulgar people, because they have a power of 
looking at such persons as objects of amusement, of 
another race altogether." 

Coleridge, Table Talk. 

1749 Want— 

" Want is the scorn of every wealthy fool, Poverty 

And wit in rags is turn'd to ridicule." 1891 

Juvenal, Satires. 

1750 Want— 

" For every want that stimulates the breast, 
Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest." 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 

1751 Wants, Man's— 

" Man wants but little here below, 
Nor wants that little long." 

Goldsmith, The Hermit. 

1752 War— 

" One to destroy is murder by the law ; Peace 

And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ; 
To murder thousands takes a specious name, 
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame." 

Young, Love of Fame. 

1753 War— 

" By neglect of this art it is that states are lost, and by 
cultivating it they are acquired." 

Machiavelli, The Prince. 

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1754 War— 

" Let the gull'd fool the toils of war pursue, 
Where bleed the many to enrich the few." 

Shenstone, Judgment of Hercules. 

1755 War— 

" A peace may be so wretched as not to be ill-exchanged 
for war." — Tacitus, Annals. 

i75« War— 

" Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle- 
flags were furl'd 
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world." 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
X757 War— 

" Man is born into the state of war." 

Emerson, Essays. 

1758 War— 

" Since tyrants, by the sale of human life, 
Heap luxuries to their sensualism, and fame 
To their wide- wasting and insatiate pride, 
Success has sanctioned to a credulous world 
The ruin, the disgrace, the woe of war." 

Shelley, Queen Mab. 

1759 War— 

" Every war that is necessary is just ; and it is humanity 
to take up arms for the defence of a people to whom no 
other resource is left." — Machiavelli, The Prince. 

1760 War— 

u My sentence is for open war." 

Milton, Paradise Lost. 

1761 War— 

" O war, thou son of hell." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. 

1762 War— 

" War, war, is still the cry ; war even to the knife." 

Byron, Childe Harold. 

1763 Waste, A — 

" A weary waste expanding to the skies." 

Goldsmith, The Traveller. 

1764 Weakness— 

" To be weak is miserable, 

Doing or suffering." — Milton, Paradise Lost. 
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1765 Wealth— a i so 

" 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Com- 

Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ! " r^ 6 ' 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village. Money, 

1766 Wealth— Riches' 

" The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, 
As sages in all times assert ; 
The happy man's without a shirt." 

Heywood, Be Merry, Friends. 

1767 Wealth— 

"Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming' 605 
rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain 73*> 
that what a man is contributes much more to his happi- 1326 
ness than what he has" — Schopenhauer, Wisdom of Life. 1587 

1768 Wealth— 

" Can wealth give happiness? look round and see X0 9 x 

What gay distress ! what splendid misery ! 
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour, 
The mind annihilates and calls for more." 

Young, Love of Fame. 

1769 Weeping— 

" We wept when we came into the world, and every 
day tells us why."— Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man. 

1770 Weeping— 

" Do not weep, my dear lady ; your tears are too 164a 
precious to be shed for me : bottle them up, and may the 
cork never be drawn." — Sterne, Letters. 

1771 Welcome— 

" 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark 
Our coming, and look brighter when we come." 

Byron, Don Juan. 

1772 Wife — 

" No man knows what the wife of his bosom is — no man 
knows what a ministering angel she is — until he has gone 
with her through the fiery trial of the world.' 

Washington Irving, Sketch-Book. 

1773 Wife— 

"All other goods by Fortune's hand are given, 
A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven." 

Pope, Imitations of Chaucer* 

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1774 Wife — 

" He knows little who tells his wife all he knows." 

Fuller, Holy and Profane States, 

1775 Wild Oats— 

" Art thou sowing thy wild oats yet (the harvest time 
was still to come with thee) upon casual sands of 
Avernus ? " — Lamb, Last Essays of Elia. 

1776 Wine — 

" Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well 
used." — Shakespeare, Othello. 

1777 Wine— 

" Wine is wont to show the mind of man." 

Theognis, Maxims. 

1778 Wine— 

" Who prates of war or want after his wine ? " 

Horace, Carmina. 

1779 Wine— 

" Dream ! — Who dreams 

Of the God that governs a thousand streams? 
Ah, who is this Spirit fine ? 
'Tis W 7 ine, boys, 'tis Wine ! 
God Bacchus, a friend of min«. 
O better is he 
Than grape or tree, 
And the best of all good company." 

B. W. Procter, A Bacchanalian Song, 

1780 Winning— 

" Winning should put any man into courage." 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline* 

1781 Winter— 

" Come, Winter, with thine angry howl, 
And, raging, bend the naked tree ; 
Thy gloom will soothe my cheerless soul, 
W r hen Nature all is sad like me ! " 

Burns, Menie. 

1782 Winter— 

" Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. 

1783 Wisdom— 

11 Be wiser than other people if you can ; but do not 
tell them so." — Chesterfield, Letters. 
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1784 Wisdom— also 

" Wisdom will as little enter into a proud or a conceited 
mind as into a malicious one. In this sense also it may 
be said, that he who humbleth himself shall be exalted." 
Southey, Colloquies on Society, 

1785 Wisdom — 

" Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop 993 

Than when we soar." 1001 

Wordsworth, The Excursion. 1080 

1786 Wisdom — 

"Wisdom without goodness is craft and treachery." 

Steele, Essays. 

1787 Wisdom— 

" For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that 813 
increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." 1328 

Book of Ecclesiastes. 

1788 Wisdom— 

" Men are wiser than they know." 211 

Emerson, Compensation. 

1789 Wisdom— 

"We are all wise. The difference between persons is 1463 
not in wisdom but in art." — Emerson, Intellect. 

1790 Wisdom — 

"Wisdom forceth not our natural conditions." 

Montaigne, Essays. 

1791 Wisdom— 

" No man can be wise on an empty stomach." 

George Eliot, Adam Bede. 

1792 Wisdom, Reputation for— 

"A short and certain way to obtain the character of a 
reasonable and wise man is, whenever any one tells you 
his opinion, to comply with him." 

Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1793 Wise— 

" No man is wise at all times." — Latin Proverb. 

1794 Wise Man, A Poor— 

" A wise man poor I35g 

Is like a sacred book that's never read, — I3 66 

To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. 1417 

This age thinks better of a gilded fool i74g 

Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school." xSgi 

Dekker, Old Fortunatus. 

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1795 Wishers— also 

" Wishers were ever fools." 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 

1796 Wishes— 

" Our wishes leng"then as our sun declines. " 

Young, Night Thoughts. 

1797 Wishes— 

" In idle wishes fools supinely stay." 

Crabbe, The Birth of Flattery. 

1798 Wishing Begets Belief— 

" What ardently we wish we soon believe." 

Young, Night Thoughts* 

1799 l Wit— 

" True wit is nature to advantage dressed, ^56 

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." 
Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

1800 Wit— 

"He doth show some sparks that are like wit." 

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. 

1801 Wit— 

" One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

1802 Wit— 

" Wit of the true Pierian spring 
That can make any thing of any thing." 

George Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois. 

1803 Wit— 

" His wit invites you by his looks to come, 707 

But when you knock, it never is at home." 933 

COWPER, Conversation. 

1804 Wit— 

" Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and 
by it will strike." — Shakespeare, The Te?npest. 

1805 Wit— 

" A quick venew of wit." 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost. 

1 In the eighteenth-century sense, having a very wide application ; to 
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x8o6 Wit— also 

" And when, (as well he might) he hit 57* 

Upon a splendid piece of wit, 
He cried : * I do declare now, this 
Upon the whole is not amiss.' 
And spent a good half-hour to show 
By metaphysics why 'twas so." 

LANDOR, Miscellaneous Poems. 

1807 Wit— 

" For works may have more wit than does 'em good, 
As bodies perish through excess of blood." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

1808 Wit— 

" Thou half-penny purse of wit." 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour s Lost. 

1809 Wit, Reputation for— 

"The greatest advantage I know of being thought a 
wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom 
of playing the fool." — Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 

1810 Wits— 

" Her wits, I fear me, are not firm." 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. 

1811 Woe— 

" No mind, that's honest, but in it shares some woe." Sorrow, 

Shakespeare, Macbeth. Grief, 

1812 Woe— ctc - 

" One woe doth tread upon another's heel, jQq^ 

So fast they follow." — Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1813 Woe— 

" Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave." 

Herrick, Sorrows Succeed. 

1814 Woe— 

" Alas ! by some degree of woe, 735 

We every bliss must gain ; 
The heart can ne'er a transport know 
That never feels a pain." — Lyttleton, Song. 

1815 Woe, Mockery of— 

"And bear about the mockery of woe 
To midnight dances and the public show." 

Pope, Importunate Lady. 
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1816 Woe = begone— a / so 

81 So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. 

1817 Woes — 

"My lord, wise men ne'er wail their present woes." 

Shakespeare, Richard II. 

1818 Woman — 

" Disguise our bondage as we will, 
'Tis woman, woman rules us still." 

Moore, Sovereign Woman. 

1819 Woman — 

" O woman ! in our hours of ease, 
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; 
And variable as the shade 
By the light quivering aspen made ; 
When pain and anguish wring the brow, 
A ministering angel thou ! " 

Scott, Marmion. 

1820 Woman — 

" But the woman is the glory of the man." 

First Book of Corinthians. 

1821 Woman — 

" And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, 
Woman's at best a contradiction still." 

Pope, Moral Essays. 

1822 Woman — 

" It mayn't be good-luck to be a woman. But one 
begins with it from a baby ; one gets used to it." 

George Eliot, Felix Holt. 

1823 Woman— 

"A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather 1038 
ta'k with a man than an angel, any day." 

Holmes, Poet at the Breakfast Table. 

1824 Woman — 

" The time I've lost in wooing, 1025 

In watching and pursuing 
The light that lies 
In woman's eyes, 
Has been my heart's undoing. 
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Tho' Wisdom oft has sought me, also 

I scorn'd the lore she brought me, 

My only books 

Were woman's looks, 
And folly's all they've taught me." 

Moore, The Time Pve Lost in Wooing. 

1825 Woman— 

" Frailty, thy name is woman ! " 

Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1826 Woman— 

" Woman ! be fair, we must adore thee ; 
Smile, and a world is weak before thee ! " 

Moore, Odes of Anacreo?i t 

1827 Worn an— 

" Oh, woman ! woman ! thou shouldst have few sins Love 

Of thine own to answer for ! Thou art the author 
Of such a book of follies in a man, 
That it would need the tears of all the angels 
To blot the record out." — Lytton, Lady of Lyons. 

1828 Woman— 

" When lovely woman stoops to folly, 
And finds too late that men betray, 
What charm can soothe her melancholy ; 
What art can wash her guilt away ? " 

Goldsmith, Lines on Woman. 

1829 Woman— 

" The man that lays his hand upon a woman, 
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch, 
Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward." 

Tobin, The Honeymoon. 

1830 Woman, A Scolding— 

" Thou mayst shut the door of joy upon that dwelling 1502 
where thou hearest resounding the scolding voice of a 
woman. ' ' — Sadi, Gulistan, 

1831 Women — 

" God bless all good women ! To their soft hands and 
pitying hearts we must all come at last." 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. 
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1832 Women— also 

" Oh, the woes that have been worked by women in 1041 
this world ! the misery into which men have lightly 108a 
stepped with smiling 1 faces; often not even with the excuse 1085 
of passion, but from mere foppery, vanity and bravado ! " 

Thackeray, Barry Lyndon. 

1833 Women— 

"Women, like princes, find few real friends." 

Lyttleton, Advice to a Lady. 

1834 Women— 

" Women think walls are held together with honey." 1088 

George Eliot, Romola. 

1835 Women— 

" Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, 
Shall win my love." 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew. 

1836 Women— 

"Had women no more charms in their bodies than what 585 
they have in their minds, we should see more wise men in 103/ 
the world, much fewer lovers and poets." 

Vanbrugh, JEsop. 

1837 Women— 

" ' I'm not denyin* the women are foolish : God 
Almighty made 'em to match the men.'" 

George Eliot, Adam Bede. 

1838 Wonder— 

u Take no pleasure in the wonder of the mob, for 
ignorance never gets beyond wonder. While vulgar folly 
wonders, wisdom watches for the trick." 

Balthasar Gracian, Art of Worldly Wisdom. 



1839 Wonder— 

" Wonder will be quickly worn." 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. 

1840 Words— 

" For words, like Nature, half reveal 1844 

And half conceal the soul within." 

Tennyson, In MemoHam. 

1841 Words — 

" Words are wise men's counters — they do but reckon 1201 
by them ; but they are the money of fools." 1203 

Hobbes, Leviathan. 
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See 

1842 Words— also 

" Words are women, deeds are men." 

Herbert, Jacula Pruaentum. 

1843 Words— 

"The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate 
the things beneath." — Pascal, Provincial Letters, 

1844 Words— 

" Why cannot mind to mind appear as a living being ? 
If a soul tries to speak> it ceases, alas ! to be soul.'* 

Schiller, Language, 

1845 Words — 

" Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, 
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

1846 Words— 

" Her words do show her wit incomparable." 

Shakespeare, 3 Henry VI. 

1847 Words— 

" His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, 1472 
trip about him at command." 

MlLTON, Apology for Smectymnuus. 

1848 Words— 

" In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, 
Alike fantastic if too new or old ; 
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

1849 Words— 

" I was never so bethumped with words." 

Shakespeare, King John. 

1850 Words, Random— 

" O, many a shaft, at random sent, 
Finds mark the archer little meant ! 
And many a word, at random spoken, 
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken." 

Scott, Lord of the Isles. 

1851 Work— 

" Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping Future, 
something new ; etc. 

That which they have done but earnest of the things 
that they shall do." — Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
203 



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See 

1852 Work— also 

" Man's work seek not among the vulgar masses, 982 

It is but few that own this precious pearl ; 
In this vast human lottery few are prizes, 
The rest a soulless crowd and worthless blank." 

Schiller, Majestas Populi. 

1853 Work— 

44 Come, let us fashion acts that are to be, 
When we shall lie in darkness silently." 

George Eliot, Legend of JubaL 

1854 Work— 

44 There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness Labour 
in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his 268 
high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually 993 
and earnestly works ; in idleness alone is there perpetual 1152 
despair." — Carlyle, Past and Present, 

1855 Work— 

"Who first invented work, and bound the free 
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down 
To the ever-haunting importunity 
Of business in the green fields, and the town — 
To plough, loom, anvil, spade — and oh ! most sad, 
To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood ? 
Who but the Being unblest, alien from good, 
Sabbathless Satan ! "—Lamb, Work, 

1856 World, The— Man, 

"The world to me is but a dream or mock-show, and ^ 
we all therein but pantaloons and antics, to my severer ^ ^ 2 
contemplations." — Browne, Religio Medici, jSrg 

1878 

1857 World, The— 

" O world, as God has made it ! All is beauty 1 IO i7 

And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. 
What further may be sought for or declared ? " 

Browning, The Guardian Angel. 

1858 World, The— 

44 The world does much to warp the heart of man." 1135,158a 

Lamb, To Charles Lloyd. 1914 

1859 World, The— 

44 The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy 
to those who feel. ''—Horace Walpole, Letters. 
204 



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See 
i860 World, The— also 

" We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so 
make use of it. Eut the judgment of an emperor should 
be above his empire, and to see and consider the same as 
a strange accident." — Montaigne, Essays. 

1861 World, The— 

" This world is very odd we see, 
We do not comprehend it ; 
But in one fact we all agree, 
God won't, and we can't mend it." 

Arthur Hugh Clough, Dipsychus. 

1862 World, The— 

"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine 
subject for speculation." — Hazlitt, Characteristics. 

1863 World, The— 

"Sir Oliver, we live in a damned wicked world, and the 
fewer we praise the better." 

Sheridan, School for Scandal. 

1864 World, The— 

" It's a very good world to live in, 
To lend, or to spend, or to give in ; 
But to beg or to borrow, or get a man's own, 
It's the very worst world that ever was known." 

Rochester, On the King. 

1865 World, The— 

" They most the world enjoy who least admire." 

Young, Night Thoughts. 

1866 World, The— 

" It is a reeling world." — Shakespeare, Richard III. 

1867 World, The— 

" To merchants the world is a bale or a heap of bills of 1002 
exchange ; for most young men it is a woman ; for some 
women it is a man ; for certain men it is a drawing-room, 
a clique, a district, a town." — Balzac, Don Juan. 

x868 World, The— 

"The world which took but six days to make, is like to 
take six thousand to make out." — Browne, Religio Medici. 
205 



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See 

i86g World, The— a lso 

" All the world's a stage, 765 

And all the men and women merely players." 990 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1877 

1870 World, The— 

M The world hath lost its charms for me ; 
Beauty like truth's no more." — Lamb, Comic Opera, 

1871 World, The— 

11 Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine." 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 

1872 World, The— 

11 For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; 605 
and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I 736 
regard is my self ; it is the microcosm of my own frame 1070 
that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, I use it but like 1590 
my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation." 

Browne, Religio Medici, 

1873 World, The— 

"O God! O God! 
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable 
Seem to me all the uses of this world ! 
Fie on't ! ah fie ! 'tis an unweeded garden, 
That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature 
Possess it merely." — Shakespeare, Hamlet, 

1874 World, The— 

" Do not begin to quarrel with the world too soon : for, 
bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in here." 

HAZLITT, Essays, 

1S75 World, The— 

" As the record from youth to age g^ 

Of my own, the single soul — ga, 

So the world's wide book : one page 023 

Deciphered explains the whole 
Of our common heritage." — Burns, Reverie* 

1876 World, The— 

11 I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; 
A stage, where every man must play a part, 
And mine a sad one." 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 
206 



DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS 



1877 World, The— a lso 

" The world's a theatre, the earth a stage Life, 

Which God and nature do with actors fill." etc - 

Heywood, Apology for Actors. ^ 5 

1878 World, The— 

"Were there not another life that I hope for, all the 
vanities of this world should not entreat a moment's breath 
from me : could the Devil work my belief to imagine I 
could never die, I would not outlive that very thought." 

Browne, Religio Medici. 

1879 World, The— 

" O let the vile world end ! " 

Shakespeare, 2 Henry VL 

1880 World, The— 

"And I go 
Again to mingle with a world impure, 
With men who make a mock of holy things 
Mistaken, and of man's best hope think scorn." 

Lamb, To Charts Lloyd. 
x88i World, The— 

"This world is not for aye."— Shakespeare, Hamlet. 

1883 World, The— 

" The World is too much with us ; late and soon, 
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ; 
Little we see in Nature that is ours ; 
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! " 
Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets. 

1883 World, The— 

" Good-bye, proud world ! I'm going home ; 
Thou art not my friend ; I am not thine : 
Too long through weary crowds I roam : — 
A river ark on the ocean brine, 
Too long I am tossed like the driven foam ; 
But now, proud world, I'm going home." 

Emerson, Good-bye Proud World. 

1884 World, The— 

" Within that narrow bed, glad babe, to thee 
A boundless world is spread ! 
Unto thy soul, the boundless world shall be 
When man, a narrow bed." 

Schiller, The Child in the Cradle* 
207 



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See 
1885 World, The— also 

" The world's an inn, and death the journey's end." 
Dryden, Palamon and Arcite. 

x886 World, The— 

" Oh, how full of briars is this working-day world." 
Shakespeare, As You Like It. 

1887 World, The— 

" I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; 
I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed 
To its idolatries a patient knee." 

Byron, Childe Harold. 

1888 World, The— 

"Why, then the world's mine oyster, 
Which I with sword will open." 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, 

1889 World, The— 

"Anywhere, anywhere 
Out of the world ! " 

Hood, Bridge of Sighs. 
i8go Worldly Faces— 

" Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. 
They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the 
sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of 
night." — George Y.\AOT,Jane?s Repentance. 



1891 Worth— 

"Ah me ! full sorely is my heart forlorn I359 

To think how modest worth neglected lies, 1366 

While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn 1417 

Such deeds alone, as pride and pomp disguise ; 1749 

Deeds of ill sort and mischievous emprize." 1794 
Shenstone, Schoolmistress. 

1892 Worth— 

' ' Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow, 
The rest is all but leather or prunella." 

Pope, Essay on Man. 

1893 Wound— 

u What wound did ever heal but by degrees? " 

Shakespeare, Othello. 
208 






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See 

1894 Wrath— also 

"Where sits our sulky sullen dame, 
Gathering- her brows like gathering storm, 
Nursing* her wrath to keep it warm." 

Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 

1895 Wrath— 

" Come not within the measure of my wrath." 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

1896 Writing— 

" ' Fool ! ' said my muse, * look in thy heart and write ! ' " 

Sidney, Sonnets* 

1897 Writing— 

" I lived to write, and wrote to live." 

Rogers, Italy. 

1898 Writing— 

" No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless 
he writes entirely for the sake of his subject." 

Schopenhauer, Art of Literature. 

1899 Writing, Ease in— 

" Ease in writing comes from art, not chance." 

Pope, Essay on Criticism. 

1900 Writing, Easy— 

" Easy writing's cursed hard reading." 

Sheridan, Clio's Protest. 

1901 Wrong, Confessing Oneself in the— 

11 A man should never be ashamed to own he has been 
in the wrong", which is but saying, in other words, that he 
is wiser to-day than he was yesterday." 

POPE, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 
190a Years, The— 

" How swiftly glide our flying years ! Time, 

Alas ! nor piety, nor tears etc 

Can stop the fleeting day ; 
Deep furrowed wrinkles, posting age, 
And death's unconquerable rage, 
Are strangers to delay." 

Horace, Odes (Francis). 
1903 Years, The— 

" Each year bears something from us as it flies, 
We only blow it farther with our sighs." 

Landor, Miscellaneous Poems* 
209 P 



DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS 



1904 Young, The— 

" Address yourself to young people ; they know every- 
thing. "—Joubert, Thoughts, 

1905 Young Man, A— 

" The atrocious crime of being a young man." 

Pitt, Speeches, 

1906 Young Men— 

" Young men are fitter to invent than to judge ; fitter 
for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects 
than for settled business." — Bacon, Of Youth and Age, 

1907 Youth— 

" Are the sports of our youth so displeasing? 
Is love but the folly you say ? 
Benumbed with the winter, and freezing, 
You scold at the revels of May." 

Schiller, To a Moralist. 

1908 Youth— 

"When all the world is young, lad, 
And all the trees are green ; 
And every goose a swan, lad, 
And every lass a queen ; 
Then hey for boot and horse, lad, 
And round the world away ; 
Young blood must have its course, lad, 
And every dog his day." 

Kingsley, The ■ Old, Old Song.* 

1909 Youth— 

"Alas for all 
The loves that from his hand proud Youth lets fall, 
Even as the beads of a told rosary." 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life. 

1910 Youth— 

11 Youth thinks itself the goal of each old life ; 
Age has but travelled from a far-off time 
Just to be ready for youth's service." 

George Eliot, Armgart. 

1911 Youth — 

" Let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack 
a reverend estimation." — Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. 
210 



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See 
191a Youth— also 

" When Youth and Pleasure meet 
To chase the glowing" hours with flying feet." 

Byron, Childe Harold. 
1913 Youth— 

" Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, 20 

While proudly riding o'er the azure realm 
In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; 
Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm ; 
Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, 
That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his ev'ning 
prey."— Gray, The Bard. 

19x4 Youth, Farewell to— 

" And when we bid adieu to youth, 
Slaves to the specious world's control, 
We sigh a long farewell to truth, 
That world corrupts the noblest soul." 

Byron, To a Youthful Friend. 

1915 Youth, The Follies of— 

" All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood 
in unlearning the follies, or .^xpi*» s \ng the mistakes of our 
youth."— Shelley, Letters 



THB fcNfc 



INDEX 



Acts of the Apostles 

668 

Addison 

Essays, 117, 831 

The Spectator, 441, 1159, 

1475 
The Tatler, 645 

Alfieri 

Oreste, 319 

Allingham, William 

Empedocles on Etna, 1122 
The Music Master, 1194 

"Anonymous" 
Elizabethan Song, 290 

Arnold, Matthew 

Essays, 14, 46, 105, 219, 224, 

230 
Human Life, 200, 993 
Rugby Chapel, 987 

Bacon 

Essays, 14, 46, 105, 219, 224, 
230, 308, 313, 34*, 465, 
519, 608, 852, 959, 1274, 
1369, 1462, 1589, 1737, 
1739 



Bacon — continued 
Essay on Death, 370 
Of Youth and Age, 1906 
Ornamenta Rationalia, 391, 
493, 613, 753, 801 

Bailey 

Festus, 1349, 1507 

Balzac 

1036 

Don Juan, 1867 

Barere 

Speeches, 954 

Barham 

Jackdaw of Rheims, 260 

Beaumont and Fletcher 

Love's Pilgrimage, 1 132 
The Maid's Tragedy, 847, 
1064, 1746 

Berkeley 

Siris, 912, 1688 

Blair 

The Grave, 362 



213 



INDEX 



Blake 

Song, 1022 

Boileau 

Art of Poetry, 564, 1699 

De Bonald 

1471 

Bonaparte, Napoleon 

1244 

Browne 

Religio Medici, 29, 61, 222, 
228, 269, 300, 354, 358, 
415,427,504,631,756,810, 
894, 981, 1012, 1070, 1074, 
1181, 1186, 1:95, 1253, 
1303, 1414, 1491, 1631, 
1707, 1732, 1856, 1868, 
1872, 1878 

Urn Burial, 198, 513 

Browning, Elizabeth 
Barrett 

Colombe's Building, 1610^ 
Lady Geraldine's Courtship, 

141 
Sonnet, 345 
Sonnets, 720 

Browning, Robert 

Balaustion's Adventure, 1291 
The Guardian Angel, 1857 
The Inn Album, 498, 809 
In a Balcony, 986 
Paracelsus, 596, 1396 
Pauline, 1654 

The Ring and the Book, 80 
A Toccata of Galuppi's, 355 

La Bruyere 

Characters, 26, 133, 442, 814, 
1010, 1165, 1319, 1516, 
1618 



Bryant 

The Battle Field, 1690 



Burke 

The Present State of the 
Nation, 586 

Reflections on the Revolu- 
tion in France, 407, 173 1 



Burns 

The Bonnie Banks of Ayr 

523 
Bonnie Bell, 1509 
Despondency, 436, 976 
Epistle to a young Friend, 

757, 835 
Farewell to Ayrshire, 11, 

628 
Fife and all the lands about 

it, 120 
Forlorn, my Love, no com- 
fort near, 597 
The Jolly Beggars, 1330 
The Lament, 1451 
Man was made to mourn, 

361, 845 
A man's a man for a' that, 

1067, 1418 
Mary Scott, 1043 
Menie, 1781 

My Dearie, if thou die, 1032 
My lovely Nancy, 996 
Reverie, 1875 
Sensibility, 1197 
She rose and let me in, 125 
Strathallan's Lament, 1484 
Tarn o' Shanter, 1133, 1335, 

1894 
The tears I shed must ever 

fall, 357 
Verses to my bed, 1062 
A winter's night, 181, 845 
666 



214 



INDEX 



Burton 

Anatomy of Melancholy, 552, 
796 

Butler 

Hudibras, 264, 1238, 1266, 

1466, 1559, 1683 
Unpublished Remains, 40 

Byron 

Childe Harold, 20, 24, iro, 

167, 751, 889, 1596, 1762, 

1887, 1912 
The Corsair, 480, 1642 
Don Juan, 16, 100, 409, 551, 

849, 1 199, 1468, 1580, 1686, 

1771 
Elegiac Stanzas, 369 
Elegy, 365 
English Bards and Scotch 

Reviewers, 139 
Fare thee well, 524 
The Island, 1671 
Marino Faliero, 1597 
Stanzas for Music, 394 
There's not a Joy, 888 
To a youthful Friend, 1913 

Campbell 

Absence, 4 

Battle of the Baltic, 172, 

173 
Hallowed Ground, 376 
Ode to the Memory of Burns, 

1337 
On a Scene in Argyleshire, 

1460 
On revisiting a Scene in 

Argyleshire, in 
The River of Life, 1669 
Stanzas to Painting, 1101 

Canning 

Speeches, 625 



Carlyle 

Burns, 384 

Chartism, 78 

Critical and Miscellaneous 
Essays, 746 

French Revolution, 885 

Heroes and Hero- Worship, 
136, 147, 268, 1225 

Hero- Worship, 546 

Lectures on Heroes, 508, 
535, 702, 707, 708, 791, 
866, 899, 935, 997, 1003, 
1 166, 1399, 1464, 1539, 
1544, 1681, 1684 

Life of Sterling, 405 

Miscellanies, 129 

Past and Present, 454, 1854 

Sartor Resartus, 706 

653 

Cervantes 

Don Quixote, 433 
1433 

Chamfort 

Maxims, 193, 936, 1402, 1582 

Chapman, George 

Bussy d'Ambois, 1536, 1802 

Churchill 

Epistle to William Hogarth, 

i 6 55 
The Ghost, 560 

Cicero 

Paradoxes, 1662 

Clough, Arthur Hugh 

Anemolia, 1659 
Dipsychus, 887, 1167, 1861 
In Venice, 1555 
The Stream of Life, 352 
Where Lies the Land? 
983 



215 



INDEX 



Coke, Sir Edward 

Epilogue to the Heir at Law, 

1 162 
The Poor Gentleman, 77 

Coleridge 

The Ancient Mariner, 1382, 

1566 
Love, 1014 
Sonnets, 1551 
Table-Talk, 660, 798, 1271, 

1440, 1702, 1748 
Zapolya, 279 

Congreve 

The Double-Dealer, 931 
The Mourning Bride, 1 190 
The Way of the World, 

1635 
713 

1 Corinthians 

1820 

2 Corinthians 

1251 

Corneille 

Cinna, 589 

Cowley 

On the Death of Crashaw, 

502 
Paraphrase of Horace's 

Odes, 1571 

Cowper 

To an Afflicted Protestant 

Lady, 1598 
The Castaway, 1143 
Conversation, 22, 109, 386, 

567, 1235, 1361, 1400 
Expostulation, 617 
Fable, 527 



Cowper— continued 
Friendship, 85, 633, 1268 
The Garden, 982, 1641 
Hope, 1733 
Human Frailty, 873 
Loss of the Royal George, 

171 
Love Abused, 1029 
The Needless Alarm, 401 
The Progress of Error, 329, 

435, 729, 1333 
Retirement, 806, 1237, 1245, 

1628, 1715 
Verses supposed to be writ- 
ten by Alexander Selkirk, 

1437 
Stanzas, 367 
Table-Talk, 51, 736 
The Task, 72, 309, 457, 673, 

1217, 1726 
The Three Graves, 1177 
Truth, 1322 
Walking with God, 11 10 

Daniel 

Care-Charmer Sleep, 432 

Dante 

Convito, 793 

Davenant 

The Just Italian, 911 

Dekker 

Old Fortunatus, 1794 

Dickens, Charles 

Dombey and Son, 380 

Disraeli 

Coningsby, 25 
Speeches, 62 

Donne 

The Triple Fool, 584 



216 



INDEX 



Dryden 

Absalom and Achitophel, 

215, 446, 642, 657 
Alexander's Feast, 1334 
Commendatory Verses, 652 
Conquest of Granada, 593 
Cymon and Iphigenia, 119 
Imitations of Horace, 1386 
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 

126 1 
Ovid's Metamorphoses, 730 
Palamon and Arcite, 73, 263, 

467, 528, 777, 956, 1024, 

1316, 1885 
1696 

The Spanish Friar, 1056 
Virgil's Eclogues, 1028 

Ecclesiastes 

158, 907, 910, 1457, 1637, 
1725, 1787 

^Eschylus 

Choephori, 1616 

Eliot, George 

Adam Bede, 121, 349, 371, 
477, 509, 9^8, 1037, 1 1 16, 
1296, 1467, 1791, 1837 

Amos Barton, 346, 420, 1275 

Armgart, 258, 351, 516, 1093, 
1331, 1430, 1691, 1910 

Felix Holt, 497, 808, 893, 
964, 1277, 1697, 1822 

Janet's Repentance, 39, 669, 
741, 1404, 1449, 1890 

Legend of Jubal, 1292, 1853 

Middlemarch, 175, 273, 412, 
422, 444, ^°-\ 812, 1224, 
1236, 124., 1243, 1398, 
1458, 1482, 1553, 1557 

The Mill on the Floss, 272, 
1672, 1734 

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, 540, 
815, 1009, 1560 



Eliot, George— continued 
Romola, 969, 1221, 1278, 

1286, 1452, 1479, 1511, 

1703, 1834 
The Spanish Gypsy, 132, 

280, 750, 962, 977, 1006, 

1307, 1487, 1652, 1660, 

1678 
201 

Emerson 
Circles, 460 
Compensation, 1605 
Essays, 634, 763, 909, 1757 
Good-bye, Proud World, 

1883 
Intellect, 1789 
Quatrains, 1549 
Self-Reliance, 205, 275, 276, 

284, 285, 834, 1 156, 1661 
The Apology, 1586 
Worship, 1436 

Fielding 

289, 399, 689, 853, ion 
Tom Jones, 1562, 1564 

Fletcher 

Melancholy, 1097 

La Fontaine 

Fables, 70, 486, 1514 

Clymene, 822 

Letter to Simon de Troyes, 

1228 

Fuller 

Holy and Profane States, 

389, 623, 680, 1556, 1774 
Of Books, 157 
1453 

Le Gallienne 

Religion of a Literary Man, 
192 



217 



INDEX 



Garrick 

Epigram on Goldsmith's 

Retaliation, 305 
Prologue on Leaving the 

Stage, 549 

Gay 

Fables, 353, 537, 573, 630, 
679, 929, 1066, 141 1, 1677 

Gibbon 

Decline and Fall, 603, 767 

Goethe 

Gedichte, 677, 1153, 1504 
Reflections and Maxims, 8, 
41, 82, 89, 93, 94, 207, 212, 
214, 259, 266, 267, 292, 296, 
326, 390, 395, 406, 408, 429, 
437,447,404,471,472,473, 
490, 533, 544, 555, 562, 572, 
649, 650, 662, 692, 717, 766, 
768, 769, 797, 799, 803, 804, 
816,817,821,825,843,859, 
860,918,919,920,941,953, 
999, 1058,1080,1090,1155, 
1200, 1242, 1255, 1257, 



1264, 


1282, 


1287, 


1300, 


1302, 


1321, 


1351, 


1354, 


1356, 


1373, 


1385, 


1395, 


1480, 


i486, 


1489, 


1499, 


1500, 


1521, 


1535, 


1585, 


1617, 


1622, 


1626, 


1633, 


1649, 


1651, 


1656, 


1673, 


1685, 


1689, 


1708, 


1714, 


1717 









Goldsmith 

Citizen of the World, 1140 
Deserted Village, 225, 404, 

723, 137 1, 1450, 1465 
Elegy on the Death of a 

Mad Dog, 425, 904 
Essays, 30, 38, 1738 



Goldsmith — continued 
The Good Natured Man, 484, 

640, 840, 13 1 1, 1769 
The Hermit, 227, 609, 636, 

1325, 1751 
Letters, 469, 579 
Ode on the Spring, 992 
The Oratorio of the Cap- 
tivity, 270, 1786 
A Prologue, 778 
Retaliation, 9, 556, 629, 1276 
She Stoops to Conquer, 87, 
611, 618, 828, 829, 1150. 
1 158, 1 164 
Song, 1 103 

The Traveller, 255, 770, 77^ 

833, 891, 940 r 1005, 1267, 

1372, 1527, 1625, 1750, 

1763, 1871 

Vicar of Wakefield, 732, 1740 

Lines on Woman, 1828 

Gracian, Balthasar 

69, 194, 301, 304, 475, 49i, 
493, 5i8, 536, 576, 933, 
1128, 1383, 1838 

Gray 

The Bard, 1695, 1914 
Elegy, 670, 1098, 1357 
Hymn to Adversity, 221 
Ode on a Distant Prospect 

of Eton College, 813, 878 
On the Death of a Favourite 

Cat, 545 
Progress of Poesy, 520 

Griffin, Bartholomew 

Fidessa, 1568 

Hall (Bishop) 

Epistles, 698 

Hardy, Thomas 

TessoftheD'Urbervilles,ioo2 






218 



INDEX 



Harrington 

Epigrams, 1680 

Harte, Bret 

Truthful James, 1574 

Hawthorne 

The Scarlet Letter, 84 

Hazlitt 

Actors and Acting, 510, 658, 

1327 

Characteristics, 537, 578, 580, 
646, 690, 716, 805, 855, 861, 
943,1076,1174, 1392,1403, 
1470, 1476, 1545, 1552, 
1577, 1579, 1657, 1694, 
1704, 1862 

Essays, 187, 298, 339, 711, 
934, 951, 1004, 1065, 1 137, 

1874 
Lectures on the English 
Poets, 1342 

Helps 

Friends in Council, 148, 274, 
438, 869 

Helvetius 
De VEsprit, 864 
1077 

Heine 

Confessions, 1052, 1063, 1223 

Herbert 

Charms and Knots, 86 
Jacula Prudentum, 106, 183, 

261, 678, 901, 1086, 1842 
The Church Porch, 1031 
The Temple, 76 

Herrick 

Counsel to Girls, 1081 
Song, 1665 



Herrick— continued 
Sorrows Succeed, 18 13 

Hesiod 

Works and Days, 453 

Heywood 

Apology for Actors, 1877 
Be Merry, Friends, 1766 
Proverbs, 105 1 
Woman killed with Kind* 
ness, 1290 

Hobbes 

Leviathan, 1841 

Holmes 

Autocrat of the Breakfast 
Table, 152, 958, 1038, 1406, 
1445, 1498, 1524, 1831 

Poet at the Breakfast Table, 
144, 1823 

Professor at the Breakfast 
Table, 63, 857, 973 

Urania, 1604 

Hood 

Ballads, 1248 

Bridge of Sighs, 216, 377,1889 

Dream of Eugene Aram, 168 

Ode to Melancholy, 1100 

The Lady's Dream, 479 

875 

Horace 

Ars Poetica, 1629 
Carmina, 330, 561, 1778 
Epistles, 600 
Odes, 366 

„ (Dean Swift), 310 

„ (Theodore Martin), 403 

„ (Otway),685 

„ (Cowper), 1091 

„ (French), 1459 

„ (Francis), 1902 



219 



INDEX 



Hunt, Leigh 

1320 
Essays, 1644 

Ibsen 

An Enemy of the People, 

257, 1089, 1709 
Ghosts, 737, 1259 
When We Dead Awaken, 

874 

Irving, Washington 

Sketch-Book, 348, 699, 1772 

Job 

138, 254, 790, 1231, 1324 

Johnson, Boswell's Life of, 
868, 915 

Friendship, 635 
London, 287, 1364, 1366 
90 
Prologue at Drury Lane, 

428, 1639 
Visit to the Hebrides, 697 

Jonson, Ben 

Bartholomew Fair, 675 
Discoveries, 738, 827, 1273, 

1285, 1646 
Every Man in his Humour, 

1 168 
1350 
Sejanus, 599 

Joubert 

Thoughts, 31, 50, 153, 387, 
913,950, 1094, 1 125, 1252, 
1341, 1461, 1477, 1530, 
1608, 1619, 1640, 1701, 
1904 

Juvenal 

Satires, 1735, 1749 



Keats 

Endymion, 1505, 1532, 1600 
Fancy, 521 
Hyperion, 1517 
Lamia, 13 12, 1315 
Letters, 1340 
Ode on Melancholy, 1096 
On a Grecian Urn, 113 
Preface to Endymion, 496, 
499, 1347 

Keble 

Christian Year, 1593 

a Kempis, Thomas 
921 

1 Kings 
1254 

Khayyam, Omar (Edward 
FitzGerald) 

356, 372, 529, 752, 760, 788, 
968, 979, 1328 

Kingsley 

The old, old Song, 27, 1908 

Lamartine 

Second Meditations, 1061 

Lamb 

Aunt's Funeral, 1178 
Childhood, 1288 
Comic Opera, 507, 1870 
Essays of Elia, 164, 315, 317, 

347, 559, 648, 930, 1229, 

1538 
Last Essays of Elia, 10, 55, 

146, 1336, 1362, 1367, 1534, 

1775 
To Charles Lloyd, 622, 1858, 

1880 
The Sabbath Bells, 294 
Work, 1855 



220 



INDEX 



Lamb — continued 
Written on the Day of my 
Aunt's Funeral, 1178 

Landor 

Imaginary Conversations,2i, 
49, 283, 328, 705, 719, 848, 
902, 1049, 1082, 1413, 1432, 
1448, 1478, 1581, 1706, 
1724, 1747 

Miscellaneous Poems, 724, 
965, 1602, 1806, 1903 

Pericles and Aspasia, 1353, 
1611 

To Ianthe, 1348 

Latin Proverb 

488, 672, 725, 1495, 1793 

Leopardi 

Thoughts, 870, 932, 1135, 
1 149, 1163, 1401, 1540, 
1679 

Lichtenberg 

Miscellaneous Writings, 
1 160 

Locke 

483 

Longfellow 

The Day is Done, 190 
Ladder of St. Augustine, 

515, 1289 
Poverty and Blindness, 1365 
A Psalm of Life, 709, 924 
Resignation, 368, 373 
The Sea-Diver, 1506 
The Spanish Student, 363 

Lowell 

Among my Books, 1595 

The Heritage, 226 

The Present Crisis, 1705 



Lowell — continued 

Rousseau and the Senti- 
mentalists, 659 

The Syrens, 980 

To the Memory of Thomas 
Hood, 1343 

Lucretius 

De Rerum Natura, 1444 

St. Luke 

780 

L y*y 

Mother Bombo, 585 

Lyttleton 

Advice to a Lady, 833 
Song, 1814 

Macaulay 

Essays, 458, 721, 1355, 1648 
History of England, 1407 
Saying of Madame Roland 
quoted by, 955 

Macchiavelli 

Dei Discorsi, 1670 

The Prince, 1713, 1753, 1759 

Marlowe 

Edward II., 400 
King Edward II., 1 1 84 
The Passionate Shepherd, 
1039 

Marston 

The Insatiate Countess, 755 
The Malcontent, 1441 

Martial 

Epigrams, 772 

Maupassant, Guy de 

Preface to Pierre et Jean, 1422 



221 



INDEX 



Massinger 

New Way to Pay old Debts, 
1550 

Mazzini 

Byron and Goethe, 643, 823, 

897, 1510, 1711 
Carlyle's French Revolution, 

764 
French Revolution, 594, 710, 

1 144, 1368 
Lamennais, 411 
Writings of Thomas Car- 

lyle, 704, 865, 1397, 1543, 

1620, 1698, 1721 

Meredith 

The Egoist, 328 

Metastasio 

624 

Michelet 

French Revolution, 594, 710, 
1144, 1368 

Middleton 

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, 
1718 

Milton 

Apology for Smectymnuus, 

1847 

Areopagitica, 135, 140 

Comus, 229, 1428 

II Penseroso, 998, 1092 

L' Allegro, 1094 

Lycidas, 1664 

Paradise Lost, 277, 303, 587, 
758, 863, 1057, 1123, 1213, 
1220, 1233, 1376, 1425, 
1435, 1531, 1588, 1643, 
1663, 1760, 1764 

Paradise Regained, 112, 
162 



Milton— continued 

Samson Agonistes, 1227, 

1609 
Sonnet to Cromwell, 1297 

Moliere 
Les Femmes Savantes, 571, 
694 

Montaigne 
Essays, 33, 151, 202, 206, 213, 
265,278,288,332,336,492, 
505,538,543,547,605,632, 
846, 896, 944, 1059, 1068, 
1211, 1238, 1284, 1387, 
1405, 1420, 1447, 1583, 
1592, 1741, 1790, i860 

Montesquieu 

Spirit of Laws, 1207 

Montgomery 

Issues of Life and Death, 
1 105 

Moore 

After the Battle, 359 
Come, send round the Wine, 

318 

Come, Ye Disconsolate, 1601 

Irish Melodies, 674 

Lalla Rookh, 503 

Last Rose of Summer, 749 

Love's Young Dream, 1027 

My Birthday, 130 

Odes of Anacreon, 1044, 

1826 
Oft in the stilly night, 1107 
Row gently here, 1025 
See the Dawn from Heaven, 

343 
Sovereign Woman, 1818 
The Dream of Home, 771 
The time I've lost in wooing, 

1824 



222 



INDEX 



Moore — continued 


Peele 


Those Evening Bells, 126 


Song, 1047 


Though 'tis all but a dream, 




641 


Petrarch 




1326 


More, Hannah 




Le Bas Bleu, 728, 1204 


Pinero 




The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 


Morris 


995 


The Day of Days, 342 






Pitt, William 


Morris, William 


Speeches, 1219, 1905 


The Day is Coming, 1358 




The Voice of Toil, 703 


Plato 


1508 


Moral Philosopher, 1576 


Newman 


Plautus 


Apologia pro Vita Sua, 


Persa, 413 


410 






Plutarch 


Novalis 


626 


1520 






Poe 


Overbury 


The Conqueror Worm, 990 


A Wife, 154 


Pope 

Epistle to Arbuthnot, 566 


Ovid 


Epistles, 83 


Essay on Criticism, 74, 297, 


Heroides, 1083 


38?, 443, 532, 575, 577, 59^, 




900, 946, 12 [6, 1389, 1421, 


Omar Khayyam (see 


1455, 1799, 1801, 1807, 


Khayyam 


1845, 1848, 1899 




Essay on Man, 47, 424, 514, 


Paley 


530,621,715,773,782,922, 


Moral Philosophy, 1576 


966, 1078, 1203, 1260, 1332, 


Natural Theology, 957 


1501, 1519, 1892 


727 


Iliad of Homer, 039 




Imitations of Chaucer, 1773 


Parnell 


Imitations of Horace, 1426 


Night Piece on Death, 375 


Importunate Lady, 1815 




Letter to Swift, 726 


Pascal 


Moral Essays, 209, 423, 1417, 


1429 


1821 


Provincial Letters, 1843 


Rape of the Lock, 123, 1139, 


Thoughts, 107, 712, 1687 


1503 



223 



INDEX 



Pope — continued 

Satires and Epistles, 511, 
684. 1378, 1492, 1575 

Thoughts on Various Sub- 
jects, 220, 209, 449, 687, 914, 
938, 1205, 1250, 1313, 1446, 
1563, 1591, 1632, 1723, 
1/45, 1792, 1809, 1901 

To Mrs. M. B., 131 

Universal Prayer, 11 14 

Prior 

An English Padlock, 223 
Epigram, 1241 
To Montague, 811 
The Turtle and the Sparrow, 
1728 

Proctor, Adelaide 

Judge not, 898 

Proctor, R. W. 

A Bacchanalian Song, 1779 
A Petition to Time, 1666 

Proverbs 

17, 182, 307, 563, 565, 569, 
619, 744, 787, 1118, 1374, 
1390, 1454, 1474, 1537 

Psalms 

1073, 1675 

De Quincey 

1518 

Quintilian 

Institutiones Oratoriae, 952 

Rabelais 

Gargantua and Pantagruel, 
1295 

von Radowitz 
1613 



Raleigh 
A Nymph's Disdain of Love, 
1019 

Revelation 

872 

Richter 

Death of an Angel, 23 

De Quincey's 'Analects,' 

382, 590, 978, 1071, 1712 
Hesperus, 858, 1636 
Levana, 1727 
Titan, 28, 208, 322, 837, 

1513 

La Rochefoucauld 

Maxims, 311, 531, 582, 606, 
695, 802, 880, 903, 1 151, 
1308, 1410, 1682 

Rochester, Earl of 

316 

Rochester 

On the King, 1864 

Rogers 

Italy, 1897 

Roscommon 

Essay on Translated Verse, 
1180 

Rossetti, Christina 

The Dead Hope, 783 
Goblin Market, 1561 
The Lowest Room, 989 
Remember, 1109 
Three Seasons, 1102 

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 

Parted Love, 1106 
The House of Life, 1909 



224 



INDEX 



Ruskin 

137 

1 170 

Fors Clavigera, 1716 

Lectures on Art, 1272 

Sadi 

Gulistan,5, 75, 568,681, 794, 
1182 

Le Sage 

Gil Bias, 91, 174, 607, 612, 
696, 743, 78i, 1034, 1041, 
1 146, 1496 

i Samuel 

1112 

2 Samuel 
1121 

Savage 

440 

Schiller 

The Artist, 114 

Beginning of the New Cen- 
tury, 616 

Cabala und Liebe, 1258 

The Child in the Cradle, 
1884 

Fiesco, 6, 81 

Hymn to Joy, 892, 1627 

The Key, 854 

Language, 1844 

Maid of Orleans, 1612 

Majestas Populi, 1852 

To a Moralist, 1314 

The Moral Poet, 1173 

My Belief, 1442 

Oberon, 785 

Piccolomini, 478 

Rousseau, 127 



Schopenhauer 

Art of Literature, 2, 99, 149, 
156, 324, 474, 487, 651, 656, 
916, 945, 1 129, 1262, 1419, 
1431, 1546, 1615, 1693, 
1729, 1898 

Counsels and Maxims, 303, 
286,302,321,333,450,601, 
832, 839, 856, 867, 984, 
1000, 1053, 1 142, 1154, 
1352, 1360, 1525, 1584, 

1594 
The Wisdom of Life, 35, 434, 
517, 661, 971, 1126, 1145, 
1161, 1206, 1208, 1375, 

I39i, 1393, 1473, 1483, 
1578, 1587, 1767 
462 

Scott 

The Lady of the Lake, 1120, 

1664 
Lay of the Last Minstrel, 

185, 1023, 1209 
Lord of the Isles, 1850 
Marmion, 385, 691, 18 19 
Twist Ye, Twine Ye, 974 

Selden 

Table Talk 282, 452, 1084 

Seneca 

De Ira, 862, 1554 

De Tranquiliitate Animi, 654 

Epistles, 1529 

Medea, 722 

de Sevigne, Madame 

Letters, 340 

Shakespeare 

All's well that ends well, 

451, 614, 776, 1087 
Antony and Cleopatra, 34, 

1189, 1795 



225 



INDEX 



Shakespeare— continued 

As you like it, 13, 122, 665, 
688, 806, 844, 1456, 1645, 
1869, 1886 

Comedy of Errors, 15, 879 

Coriolanus, 3 

Cymbeline, 91, 1485, 1558, 
1780 

Hamlet, 53, 67, 92, 166, 180, 
188, 337, 374, 396, 402, 526, 
615, 627, 667, 761, 800, 820, 
884, 1060, 1075, Il8 3, I2 3 2 , 
1249, 1280, 1317, 1408, 
1423, 1490, 1603, 1650, 
1812, 1825, 1873, 1881 

(1) Henry IV., 364, 455, 700, 

850, 876, 1722 

(2) Henry IV., 64, 331, 570, 
1055, 1299, 1816 

Henry V., 44, 199, 482, 637, 

883, 925, 1 1 13 
(I) Henry VI., 52, 54, 1247, 

1409, 1416, 1512, 1761, 

1782, 1839, £879 

(3) Henry VI., 1846 
Henry VIII., 48, 56, 58, 124, 

177, 250, 747 
Julius Caesar, 36, 104, 383, 

414, 481 
King John, 456, 602,1736,1849 
King Lear, 233, 379 
Love's Labour's Lost, 161, 

1 134, 1472, 1805, 1808 
Macbeth, 60, 312, 335, 789, 

851, 927, 972, 1318, 1572, 
1811 

Measure for Measure, 96, 
539, 939, 1072, 1 185, 1488, 
1810 

Merry Wives of Windsor, 
176, 241, 1573, 1888 

Merchant of Venice, 71, 251, 
522, 574, 686, 1040, 1046, 
1117, 1127, 1192, 1265, 
1494, 1623, 1876, 1911 



Shakespeare — continued 
Midsummer Night's Dream, 

235, 1 176, 1234, 1339 
Much Ado about Nothing, 

103, 118, 253, 745, i<^5, 

1 157, 1226, 1294, 1676, 

1744, 1800 
Othello, 320, 877, 881, 1270, 

1776, 1893 
Richard II., 168, 262, 948, 

1218, 1239, 1415, 1817 
Richard III., 191, 1412, 1866 
Romeo and Juliet, 1, 65, 66, 

68,184,344,548,683,1138, 

1147, 1201, 1310 
Taming of the Shrew, 43, 

525, 739, 1099, 1124, 1171, 

1502, 1835 
The Tempest, 553, 1013, 

1050, 1 141, 1804 
Timon of Athens, 620, 671, 

775, 1 136 
Titus Andronicus, 693, 11 19 
Troilus and Cressida, 37, 

1045, 1215, 1710 
Twelfth Night, 189, 249, 928, 

1542 
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 

18, 102, 108, 1719, 1895 
Winter's Tale, 42, 95, 186, 

501, 647, 1281, 1323 



Shelley 

Adonais, 393, 985, 991 
Epipsychidion, 431, 718, 908, 

1700 
Letters, 1915 
Prometheus Unbound, 734, 

886, 994, 1 187, 1 198, 1346 
Queen Mab, 128, 256, 360, 

381, 740, 754, 1222, 1298, 

1304, 1370, 1388, 1523, 

1758 
Revolt of Islam, 398 



226 



INDEX 



Shelley — continued 
When the Lamp is shattered, 
595 

Shenstone 

Judgment of Hercules, 1754 
On the Back of a Gothic 

Seat, 1548 
Schoolmistress, 1891 

Sheridan 

Clio's Protest, 1900 

School for Scandal, 1172, 

1 175, 1497, 1634, 1863 
The Rivals, 784, 942, 1104 
1443 

Sidney 

Apologia for Poetrie, 1344 
Arcadia, 1008 
Sonnets, 1569, 1896 

Smith, Horace 

Horace in London, 218 

Smith, Sidney 

419 

Song of Solomon 

882, 1016, 1021 

Southey 

Colloquies on Society, 323, 
731, 842, 949, 1007, 1345, 
1606, 1784 

Curse of Kehama, 350, 1015 

Saint Gualberto, 506 

Stanzas written in his 
Library, 145 

Spanish Proverb 

1048 

Spencer, Herbert 
Essays, 115 



Spenser 

Faerie Queen, 291, 1305 
1279 

Steele 

Commendatory Verses, 7 
Essays, 19, 421, 463, 1377, 

1379, 1730, 1786 
The Lover, 1246 

Sterne 

Letters, 1770 

Sentimental Journey, 1565 
Tristram Shandy, 1263 

Swift 

The Beast's Confession, 1069 
Cadenus and Vanessa, 134, 

557 

Conversation, 1269 

1 169 

Hints towards an Essay on 
Conversation, 445 

Thoughts on Various Sub- 
jects, 32, 155, 160, 195, 
197,211,314,325,397,416, 
418,558,604,663,714,960, 
1054, 1 148, 1 179, 1230, 
1329, 1427, 1438, 1459, 
I4 6 3, 1533, 1624, 1667 

Treatise on Good Manners, 
179, 476, 598, 1079, 1301 

554 

Swinburne 

A Century of Roundels, 1188, 

1196 
Tristram of Lyonesse, 1193 

Syrus 

Maxims, 542, 591, 838 

Tacitus 

Agricola, 742 
Annals, 1755 



227 



INDEX 



Talleyrand 

1528 

Temple 

Miscellanea, 970 

Tennyson 

Elaine, 448 

Choric Song, 1191 

The Grandmother, 961 

In Memoriam, 426, 500, 664, 

748, 1030, 1840 
Lady Clara Vere de Vere, 

903 
Launcelot and Elaine, 541 
Locksley Hall. 644, 682, 836, 

963, 1017, 1599, 1756, 1851 
The Lover's Tale, 12 12 
The Lotus Eaters, 926 
Maud, 1607 
Ode on the Death of the 

Duke of Wellington, 1547 
Passing of Arthur, 1381 
The Poet's Mind, 937 
Sea-Dreams, 588 
Sixty Years after, 101, 1020 
Ulysses, 830, 841 

Thackeray 

Barry Lyndon, 871, 1359, 

1832 
Pendennis, 610 
Preface to Pendennis, 295 
Vanity Fair, 733 

Theognes 

Maxims, 1777 

Thompson 

A Hymn, 1541 
The Seasons, 466 

Tobin 

The Honeymoon, 1829 



Unknown 

(French), 485 

Vanbrugh 

^Esop, 1836 

Vaughan 

Friends in Paradise, 1108 

Vauvenargues 

Reflections, 1293 

Virgil 

Eclogues (Dryden), 494, T035 

Voltaire 

Discours sur l'Homme, 470 
Le Mondain, 1621 

1384 

Preliminary Discourse, 163 

1424 

Waller 

Verses on a War with Spain 
459 

Walpole, Horace 

Letters, 1859 

Walsh 

Song, 1481 

Walton 

Compleat Angler, 1131 

Watson, William 

Excursions in Criticism, 327 

Whately 

Remains, 774 

Whittier 

Mary Garvin, 772 

Raphael, 759 

The Reformer, 1668 



228 



INDEX 



Whit tier — continued 
To a Friend, 1630 

Webster, Lady Winch- 
elsea 

To the Nightingale, 196 
Duchess of Malii, 378 

Wordsworth 

Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 430, 

895 

Expostulation and Reply, 
142 

I wandered lonely, 1590 

Michael, 1042 

Miscellaneous Sonnets, 1882 

Ode on Intimations of Im- 
mortality, 1658 

Poems referring to Child- 
hood, 231 

A Poet's Epitaph, 1309 

Prelude, 1653 



Wordsworth — continued 
The Tables Turned, 159, 

1214 
Tintern Abbey, 792, 906, 
1210 

Watton 

Character of a Happy Life, 
1526 

Young 

Busiris, 735 

Love of Fame, 178, 676, 701, 

947, 1752, 1768 
Night Thoughts, 967, 1394, 

1434, 1570, 1796, 179*1 

1865 
Satires, 1380 
The Excursion, 1785 

Zimmerman 
293, 1522 



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